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by smorgusofborg 1708 days ago
> even though he/she _could_ navigate with a compass and sextant if needed.

The person with 22 years experience could fall back like this thanks to survivor bias, the person with 2 years experience might have been lucky so far.

I had to wonder what FB chose as a cultural strategy that left them down for hours when other companies can recover virtually anything in under an hour and if a focus on being less cool and less ageist would have helped them.