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Re:Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now' by afavour on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:33PM (#36413256)
Predicting the demise of something does not mean you are incorrect until the day it collapses.

People have criticised Oceangate’s approach to security for years. By your logic I could have turned around to all of them and said “you’re wrong”, up until a few days ago when the CEO got trapped inside a submarine to die. The people who said their safety approach was a ticking time bomb were right all along, it just took time to be proven out.

Re:Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now' by jstarfish on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:11AM (#36414301)
There's no right or wrong answer to this since failure predictions are logically flawed.

Doomsday cult leaders no longer insist the world will end on a specific day; they insist it will end imminently after a series of vague events. Your skeptics will die of old age before you can ever be proven wrong.

Re:Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now' by afavour on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:16AM (#36414336)
Well, no, failure predictions can either be based on evidence or they can be based on nothing. The doomsday cult is based on nothing, the submarine safety prediction is based on looking at which precautions the company is and is not taking.