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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by sn41 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:21PM (#36413596)
In such a truly free world, you might have to check every piece of chicken for salmonella contamination. You might have to stop your truck at every turn to see if people are racing from the opposite direction. You might not be very sure that your alcohol is not actually methanol....

Regulations do make our life smooth, even if there is a tendency to go overboard.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by brutusborn on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:24PM (#36413612)
The difference is scale and ability to measure risk. We know how to make chicken safe and a lot of people eat it, so regulation works well.

For subs, it is a tiny number of people and risks are nearly impossible to assess.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by sn41 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:26PM (#36413630)
Yeah, I agree to that. It is a bit avant garde, so people signing up must know that it is more miss than hit, so buyer beware.
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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by Aeolun on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:29AM (#36414717)
> risks are nearly impossible to assess

We have subs that have been touring the oceans for several decades, so we have a pretty good idea of what is unsafe and what works.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:33AM (#36415944)
> risks are nearly impossible to assess

this is total fabrication, we have submarines for 200 years. WW1 german u-boats were safer than this piece of crap

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by brutusborn on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:09AM (#36430371)
We’ve had subs, but not mini subs that go to 4km depths.
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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:30PM (#36441682)
We sent a mini sub to explore the deepest point on earth 60 years ago.
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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by brutusborn on Saturday June 24, 2023 @02:00AM (#36455988)
Im aware of that, just wanted to clarify that we haven’t had deep mini subs for 200 years.
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