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by strictnein 3871 days ago
There's a mass surveillance program intended to stop tigers from attacking you?
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nitrogen 3871 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2W0sq9ddU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Apu_About_Nothing

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stavrianos 3871 days ago
Systems designed to prevent black swan events need to be evaluated against a higher standard than "there haven't been any since we started". That's not success, it's exactly what we would have expected anyways.
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strictnein 3871 days ago
We would have expected no large scale terrorist attacks in the US from 2001 until now? Absolutely no one expected that.

Is it a black swan event if it was attempted 8 years earlier (WTC 1993, 6 dead, 1000 injured)?

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