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Forge36 on June 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The world should think better about catastrophic a...

But they do care about power outages, hurricanes, tornadoes (maybe not in US-EAST1), cut fiber lines

The probability any one very rare event is low. Preparing for it helps mitigate risks for many other issues however.

ashtonkem on June 30, 2020 [–]

I believe GPS premise is largely correct, although the metaphor used could use a bit of work.

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