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> If you're going to publish information that people might rely upon, especially in an emergency, you're taking on the responsibility of maintaining the accurac
by makeitdouble 5y ago
> If you're going to publish information that people might rely upon, especially in an emergency, you're taking on the responsibility of maintaining the accuracy of that information
That doesn't seem to work that way in most situations.
For instance there is a mandatory floor plan in all public buildings in case of emergency, and now with covid some do flow control by physically blocking entries/exits. These maps aren't updated to cross out blocked paths, and nobody seems to getting sued to outer space.
Gov sites are regularily broken, out of date, ridden with errors. I once needed to go to an clinic and used the GPS coordinates to go there, only to realize midway they were the town center coordinates and not the accurate building's coordinate. They still operate, I requested an update and it's not fixed.
- toast0 5y ago> These maps aren't updated to cross out blocked paths, and nobody seems to getting sued to outer space. You can't sue someone preemptively for bad information. You've also got to have a bad situation made significantly worse by bad information.
- throwawaythekey 5y agoSurely you can though! Isn't that what endangerment exists for (or is that bar too high?). I imagine if actual harm, or near harm, was required then it would be very difficult to enforce a lot standards.
- toast0 5y agoA lot of enforcement comes from government authority and fines and what not, not lawsuits and not private lawsuits. I mean, you're welcome to file a suit, but if you don't have a contract, and you don't have actual harm, and you don't have statuatory harm, expect your suit to be dismissed.
- darkerside 5y agoWho are "some"? Blocking fire exits is totally illegal. You should probably report them. Government being complete shit at software, and people don't trust the government. Correlation?
- makeitdouble 5y agoBy "public" buildings I meant "open to the public". Worst offenders of this are supermarkets and big retailers IMO.
- hef19898 5y agoWell, there is a different between blocking / limiting certain doors for regular use as entries / exits and physically blocking fire exits. Doing the first is absolutely fine, the later doesn't help with flow control anyway.
- donkeyd 5y ago> Correlation? Yes, but not always in the way you expect. Because people tend to distrust government with money, they often tend to try and spend the least amount of money for software. Everyone who works in software knows that that often means that you get a shitty product. On the other end of the spectrum is government being afraid to deliver a product that isn't 100% perfect. So they end up paying loads of money and delaying releases because of scope creep. I've done a lot of consulting in government and these are two things I've seen there a lot.
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