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Re:Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 model... by s9w on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:14AM (#23099661)
Why do you think that's a crazy conclusion? That code is worthless - such quality of work would not be accepted in the private sector. And it's doubtful it can be of any value at all.

So when the work they do is this bad, I think it's reasonable to question whether they should be continued to be paid for no value to the public.

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Re:Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 model... by lbeltrame on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:19AM (#23100565)
> such quality of work would not be accepted in the private sector.

To be fair, if such code would be used for a paper and the flaws came out, I think it would warrant a retraction.

I think I saw not too long ago a story right here where a software error caused completely wrong results.

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