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I mean most people know it's a terrible idea, it's just that 0.1% of a population of 330 million people is 330k people, and I don't think that 0.1% is from a fa

I mean most people know it's a terrible idea, it's just that 0.1% of a population of 330 million people is 330k people, and I don't think that 0.1% is from a failure of our education system

ghaff 4y ago
Why would you think that most people would just know it’s a terrible idea? After all, the vast majority of (digital) cables that people use mostly work just fine so long as they fit—leaving aside vagaries of USB-C and Thunderbolt.
- xani_ 4y ago
  > Why would you think that most people would just know it’s a terrible idea? I dunno, statistic about deaths from electrocution?
  - ghaff 4y ago
    And why would they connect overall statistics about deaths from electrocution to that particular thing? Lots of ways to get electrocuted.
    - xani_ 4y ago
      Sure but they're pretty much overall, so adding "coz he used a suicide power cord" would show even less people actually affected"
- zardo 4y ago
  The problem isn't that it won't work, it's the exposed live prongs.
mikestew 4y ago
Your estimate could be extremely high. What those quick with a dismissive comment forget is that 15% of the population has an IQ of 85 or less. So to answer the FAANG-employed Stanford grad's question of "how could anyone be this stupid?": easy, a non-trivial percentage of them are born that way. Regardless, there are plenty of my Microsoft/Google/FB-employed neighbors that I wouldn't trust around anything more dangerous than what comes out of a USB port, either.