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> there's very little sense of urgency about it. That probably means it doesn't really matter.
by ProAm 9y ago
> there's very little sense of urgency about it.
That probably means it doesn't really matter.
- fsloth 9y agoNo, it means it has worked fine so far. As long as negligence has no immediate and direct maladies as result it's easy to ignore it.
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- gjvc 9y agoI think you might have reality somewhat back-to-front, but this is an interesting point on urgency vs importance. Silicon Valley has veterans sleeping on the sidewalks, but the chatter in the coffee shop yards away is about the new fleeting hotness in web frameworks. Society rarely considers dealing with that which is really urgent until it's too late, and even then fails to act sufficiently. By a similar token, when a bank official says "We are well capitalized." they usually mean "We are in deep trouble and are unable to fix it." A preventative solution should be as considered as urgent as a cure. Indeed, when one is dealing with a cure, at least the size of the problem is known. When one is considering making a preventative measure, the possible size not yet known with confidence, meaning the problem might be more acute than previously thought.