▲ 837 ▼ Lawsuit time 🇺🇸🦅 (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by GamerBoy705@lemmy.world [M] to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world 89 comments fedilink hide all child comments Reminds me of the Therac-25 incident..
[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) part of the reason why the pharmaceutical industry is pretty rough and requires several verifications, as it only takes one mistake to be a fatal one. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago (1 child) Any time someone bitches about government oversight and regulations, I think about cases just like this. In many cases we should WANT a large bureaucracy with plenty of checks and approvals overseeing things like this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Except the large bureaucracy must be honest in that case, otherwise it just starts exploiting lack of transparency to do nothing and get benefits for that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago (1 child) Any time someone bitches about government oversight and regulations, I think about cases just like this. In many cases we should WANT a large bureaucracy with plenty of checks and approvals overseeing things like this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Except the large bureaucracy must be honest in that case, otherwise it just starts exploiting lack of transparency to do nothing and get benefits for that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Except the large bureaucracy must be honest in that case, otherwise it just starts exploiting lack of transparency to do nothing and get benefits for that permalink fedilink source parent