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F.U.D. drove the world crazy during Y2K despite it not being an actual problem. Maybe we need a little bit of that here?

• Lendal 7y ago
  The difference being that in the 90's we actually did things to prevent Y2K from becoming a problem.
  • paulddraper 7y ago
    Yes, that's what you found out when you stripped away the hysteria.
  • Cthulhu_ 7y ago
    And when there was a hole in the ozone layer, for the first time ever the whole world agreed on a measure to stop it. That too was a global climate problem.
• jmull 7y ago
  > despite it not being an actual problem How do you figure that? Not that there wasn't plenty of ignorant hysteria. But there was also a lot of real mitigation work. A lot of stuff didn't break on 1/1/2000 because we fixed the bugs before then.
• deleted 7y ago
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