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Is this now the most costly software error in history, measured in human lives lost? Imagine if the UK Parliament or the EU decides that the best response is e

• aaron695 8y ago
  > Is this now the most costly software error in history, measured in human lives lost? No, it's a drop in the bucket. Here's a 1.2 billion screw up, it'd have to also be hundreds if not thousands of lives (A human life in the west is worth around 1 or 2 million $) https://www.smh.com.au/technology/queensland-health-payroll-fail-government-ordered-to-pay-ibm-costs-20160404-gnxpqj.html https://www.smh.com.au/technology/queensland-health-payroll-... Even if you looked at humans per lines of code I suspect this wouldn't be it.