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I think this practice is hand-in-glove with the general commercial model that a review site like this inherently pushes back against, though? In any case, I've
by abathur 6y ago
I think this practice is hand-in-glove with the general commercial model that a review site like this inherently pushes back against, though?
In any case, I've daydreamed about doing something along these lines, plus an aggressive list of policies that companies/products/brands are delisted for violating (i.e., delisting brands when teardowns find anything they went out of their way to engineer for predictable failure).
- Kliment 6y agoEngineering things for predictable failure is often necessary when the alternative is a worse, dangerous failure further down the line. The classical example of this is the fuse - it's a device designed to fail first in order to prevent other, more destructive failures. I know that's not the kind of engineered failure point you're thinking of, but it's important to understand that things like this may actually have good reasons.