Even before seeing it was Woz that posted - the answer in my head was "because they work". And he made no compelling argument to have something else. I don't b

Even before seeing it was Woz that posted - the answer in my head was "because they work". And he made no compelling argument to have something else. I don't believe in smartness for smartness' sake. For a fuse to fail you need 1) wrong fuse 2) physical damage to the fuse (not sure if there is a case in which this would cause it to not break the circuit), different set of laws of physics.