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We have multiple exits to avoid trapping people in a fire. Redundancy is important when the cost of failure is high.



America has much stricter rules about this than other places, actually.


Sure, and all those rules were created when a building without multiple exists burned down and many people died.

Maybe this crowdstrike outage will be the "burning building" that will bring change :)


Computer systems have gone down before. It's only when people actually die, rather than merely be inconvenienced, that change happens.


911 systems down overnight will certainly be found to have caused deaths.




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