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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Almost everything you said here is wrong. Much of it dangerously so.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

I like the part where you have no details or arguments, just vibes.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

You don't reason someone out of a position they didnt reason themselves into, and I cannot figure out how to come to conclusions that incorrect. Just leaving a warning; my reply wasn't for you.

You're right about wage theft being common. So that's something.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is pure pseudo intellectualism because you literally have no argument or point.

You have no reasoning and are projecting that onto me because you can't explain this opinion your feelings have brought you to.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not willing to argue with you. I've argued this with you¹ a thousand times, you are not rational. Everyone who reads your shit knows what I'm talking about. Ask them.

¹perhaps with a different name and face, but otherwise indistinguishable. It gets tedious.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

With the amount you've typed you could have easily typed a rationale. The truth is your opinions don't hold weight and have no good rationale. That is all.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 4 hours ago

The burden of proof is on you. Show me one example of a company being held liable (really liable, not a settlement/fine for a fraction of the money they made) for a software mistake that hurt people.

The reality is that a company can make X dollars with software that makes mistakes, and then pay X/100 dollars when that hurts people and goes to court. That's not a punishment, that's a cost of business. And the company pays that fine and the humans who mode those decisions are shielded from further repercussions.

When you said:

the idea that the software vendor could not be held liable is farcical

We need YOU to back that up. The rest of us have seen it never be accurate.

And it gets worse when the software vendor is a step removed: See flock cameras making big mistakes. Software decided that this car was stolen, but it was wrong. The police intimidated an innocent civilian because the software was wrong. Not only were the police not held accountable, Flock was never even in the picture.

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