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by aaron695 2972 days ago
> Is this now the most costly software error in history, measured in human lives lost?

No, it's a drop in the bucket.

Here's a 1.2 billion screw up, it'd have to also be hundreds if not thousands of lives (A human life in the west is worth around 1 or 2 million $)

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/queensland-health-payroll-...

Even if you looked at humans per lines of code I suspect this wouldn't be it.