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No because the cost of fucking up is usually that lives are lost.
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But the cost of fucking up is really high in software, too. Countless people have had their lives ruined by hackers exposing their personal information, yet security is almost always an afterthought.

And there are also cases like Therac-25 in which people have actually died, but I'd like to think that medical software is more regulated now.




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