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by TeMPOraL 2450 days ago
> You are never going to make a mistake in a factory that increases its electricity consumption by 1,000,000x

Maybe not a million, but a thousand times? Sure. Just short some heavy machinery and watch the amperes light up the day like a second sun as they rush out to pour into the ground. Factories have breakers to prevent that, you'll say. Turns out software projects don't have fuse equivalents, even though they should. The reason is that bleeding electricity is expensive (and dangerous to people, which from the company's POV means "even more expensive"), whereas data leaks aren't. I hope the latter is going to change.