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The shed's a strawman. How do we handle hurricane damage and other "acts of god?" Not in court, but with insurers. Do insurers currently insure properties with

The shed's a strawman. How do we handle hurricane damage and other "acts of god?" Not in court, but with insurers. Do insurers currently insure properties with sheds? Yes. Do they insure shabby sheds against hurricanes? Maybe - it's up to them and I'm sure they can figure out if the odds would pay off for them. If your shed exploded into millions of shards of glass when struck by high wind that would be a different story. Or if it spread toxic chemicals all over your neighborhood. Or if it caught fire easily and the fire could spread to other buildings. Who would have thought sheds would make such wonderful metaphors?

WJW 4y ago
I think you are missing the point I was trying to make with my shed. It's a flimsy building that was definitely not "Engineered" with a capital E. It was slapped together by some carpenters apprentice in much the same way that most software is slapped together without much calculation or planning, and that is fine because it's just a shed. The hurricane is not very relevant to the argument, just that there is no building code regulating the shed. My point in the GP was that most software (even in the biggest of enterprises) is more like a shed than a skyscraper: not very well Engineered and also not very critical. Even Maersk can apparently survive just fine without their logistics planning software for over two weeks. What would be the appropriate level of regulation for software that is apparently not all that critical? I think the appropriate level of regulation for most software would be extremely low, because not much is at stake.