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1621.
by supertrope 9y ago
Certainty of enforcement. People are careful to obey a rule punished 100% of the time with a $1 fine. They brush off a 10^-5 probability of a $100,000 loss by thinking "It won't happen to me."
1622.
by supertrope 9y ago
The United States government led by the Obama administration came up with values from 6-9 million dollars when weighing marginal costs of safety regulations. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/eco
1623.
by supertrope 9y ago
Bad idea. Even Uber corporate VPs shouldn't be exposed to unnecessary injury risk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_47utWAoupo
1624.
by supertrope 9y ago
Safety rules are written in blood. Often someone has to die before action is taken. But eventually people forget, get sloppy, or consider the rules completely useless. See: nightclub fires.
1625.
by supertrope 9y ago
On the science angle for those unfamiliar: Luigi Galvani investigated the connection between living creatures and electricity. Earlier scientists had observed that static electricity and lightning were the same phenomenon. Galvani made frog
1626.
by supertrope 9y ago
Effectively turning an asynchronous conversation (e.g. email) into a synchronous one (e.g. phone call).
1627.
by supertrope 9y ago
Email attachments are the lowest common denominator despite the 25MB cap, occasional diversion into a spam folder, no sender authentication, no encryption, poor suitability of email clients and servers for bulk file transfers, etc. Whatever
1628.
by supertrope 10y ago
47 states (New York, Washington and Illinois the outliers) have passed an Uniform Electronic Transaction Act that confers electronic signatures with equal weight. A federal law has existed since 2000. Unfortunately a self-fulfilling prophec
1629.
by supertrope 10y ago
The Video Privacy Protection Act was passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's rental history was leaked to a newspaper.
1630.
by supertrope 10y ago
"FiOS" is a Verizon trademark, not a general term. Fiber to the home is an entirely different matter from commercial and municipal fiber optic links, mainly in that they do not have to reach almost every single address. They conne