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yeah it kinda is



No. Windows balance a variety of competing needs - security, ventilation, egress during emergencies, mental health, lighting, etc. It would be, perhaps, egregiously negligent for a maximum security prison architect to install large plate glass windows in their cells, but having windows isn't automatically egregious. A car without windows (or with unbreakable ones) is a deathtrap in an accident; omitting them would be egregiously dangerous.

The same isn't true for, say, Kia/Hyundai's decision not to include immobilizers:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/kia-and-hyundai-vehicles-in-can...

> CNN reported that only 26 per cent of Hyundai and Kia models from 2015 to 2019 were equipped with electronic immobilizers in the U.S., compared with 96 per cent of all other vehicles in those years, making the Hyundai and Kia models roughly twice as likely to be stolen.

Those stats make it pretty clear that immobilization was already the industry standard. Skipping them was like knowingly writing open SQL injection holes in a web application.


Egregious is subjective. You think it's egregious for cars to have locks which can be circumvented by thieves. Maybe I think it's egregious that construction firms don't install iron bars on all ground floor windows.


https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/kia-and-hyundai-vehicles-in-can...

> CNN reported that only 26 per cent of Hyundai and Kia models from 2015 to 2019 were equipped with electronic immobilizers in the U.S., compared with 96 per cent of all other vehicles in those years, making the Hyundai and Kia models roughly twice as likely to be stolen.

If 96% of buildings in a neighborhood have iron bars over the ground floor windows, and you build a development in which only 26% of them do, yes... that's probably negligent, unless there are other factors to explain the discrepancy.

If theives start disproportionately breaking into your development's properties, your tenants can probably be a bit miffed about your lack of security measures.


dude, he was being facetious on purpose and used the term as a synonym to "shocking" to make the point that having windows are not really an egregious vulnerability. that's silly. the problem is criminals, not windows.




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