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That's what it says right there on the page already: "Additional equipment like viral filters are also required."
by Tepix 7y ago
That's what it says right there on the page already: "Additional equipment like viral filters are also required."
- minikites 7y agoSo it's okay to show someone how to make something extremely hazardous as long as you include a flimsy nonspecific disclaimer?
- shijie 7y agoI believe so, yes. I like to think people can make reasonable decisions with information they are provided
- minikites 7y agoIf people can make reasonable decisions all of the time, why do we even have laws? Reasonable people wouldn't violate them anyway.
- folkhack 7y agoThis is pandering to an extreme situation in order to make a case... I think anyone on HN will acknowledge that people are on a scale from "not reasonable" to "very reasonable". You're pushing the comment you're responding to over to a binary point of view. I don't believe in good faith that shijie meant "all of the time" when they said "I like to think people can make reasonable decisions with information they are provided". To push their statement to "all of the time" while bringing the ethics of law into this conversation seems disingenuous to the safety/disclaimer concerns you originally called into question. Personally, I found the disclaimer on the airbreak.dev site to be very clear and appreciated it was on the front-page directly following the product summary. It is clear to me that this is an "in-development" project that is not ready for real-world deployment yet - they're being quite clear/transparent with these facts.
- patmorgan23 7y agoActually yes(not that this is particularly dangerous) . It happens litteraly all the time. Ever seen all those "don't try this at home" disclaimers? Also someone published a book called "the anarchist cook book" on how to make rudimentary explosives and manufacture illicit substances such as LSD. You can find a pdf of it with a quick google search.
- derrick_jensen 7y agoBoth of those have fairly obvious consequences. I can definitely see people using this and not recognizing it can put other people in harms way.
- tomhoward 7y agoThis kind of concern-trolling on threads like this gets really tiresome. Anyone in such a role where they will be fitting ventilators to people (i.e., highly educated, experienced and employed in a critical care role) will understand that this is outside of standard practice and that extra caution will need to be taken and considerations made for the different functionality and behaviour of the machine. Can't we just appreciate the spirit of inventiveness in a crisis, without having to spoil it by fretting about issues that any grown adult working with this stuff will be fully capable of considering?
- minikites 7y agoThis post is a perfect distillation of why there should be more history and other humanities subjects in traditionally STEM educations. >Can't we just appreciate the spirit of inventiveness in a crisis, without having to spoil it by fretting about issues that any grown adult working with this stuff will be fully capable of considering? Can't we just appreciate the inventiveness of using radium to light up watch dials? Or the inventiveness of the first friction matches? Someone who is educated or trained doesn't necessarily make a dangerous invention a net-positive.
- tomhoward 7y ago
- the_fury 7y agoAbsolutely, yes.