Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung

Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by lapetitejort on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:48PM (#29018221)

A Professional Engineer certification can mean "We trust you to work on things where human lives may be at stake". Gatekeeping engineers use this to exclude everyone else. If your screw-up doesn't cost human lives then you're not a real engineer.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by junon on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:51PM (#29018948)

> If your screw-up doesn't cost human lives then you're not a real engineer.

This is such a ridiculous, asinine, and outright wrong assertion that it warrants no reasoned response.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by dang on Friday October 29, 2021 @02:38PM (#29042081)

In that case please follow the site guidelines, which ask you not to reply.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29023822 also broke the site guidelines. That's not cool, regardless of how bad other comments are or you feel they are.

Would you please review them and take the intended spirit of this place more to heart? We'd appreciate it.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by sho_hn on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:36PM (#29019433)

I'm fairly sure the post you're replying you was interpretative-facetious.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by junon on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:36PM (#29020455)

I got that, it was directed towards the engineers who act this way. I've met too many of them as well.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by dang on Friday October 29, 2021 @02:40PM (#29042093)

Please do not post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. We've had to ask you this multiple times before. That's not cool.

You also broke the site guidelines by crossing into personal attack below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025655

We're trying to avoid this kind of thing here, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by junon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:45AM (#29023822)

I also live in Europe. The term Engineer is used in many contexts outside of "what you build could kill people" contexts.

Get off your high horse.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by anthk on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:11AM (#29025655)

Spaniard here. I doubt it. Maybe in the UK, but in the rest of Europe being an Engineer is not a bragging wannabe title.

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