[liontwist]

- computers have outages, so I imagine they run them earlier than legally required and have procedure to detect and fix failure - computers have outages so I imagine there are legal procedures for handling issues with bond payments - if they break treasury payments trump will tell them to fuck off - this whole situation is a larp because you associated “treasury” and “bonds” in your mind and imagined that this risk exists

[TheNewsIsHere]

Your argument is predicated on the technologists who are running the technology acting in good faith.

Normally this has been an uncontroversial granted.

Unfortunately this is no longer our reality.

[liontwist]

No. My argument is that bond defaulting is a legal status. Not a server outage. And that we are getting into larp territory with no evidence they are tampering with bonds.

[spacemanspiff01]

Yes, but the fact that it is even a question is absurd.

I guess my thought is that you have a boss that told you to touch a computer system, normally only a few people touch it, because of you make a mistake, your company looses 100 billion dollars.

You make pretty sure that whoever is dealing with that system are experts, you make sure that they do not modify it without following procedures, you double/triple check that their change won't have side affects, you then run the changes on a test system just to make sure.

And yeah, you are only adding a print statement, it should be fine...

But what if it's not.

Move fast and break things is fine if worst case scenario your social media site goes down.

Move fast and break things is less fine when you could fuck up a key piece of financial infrastructure.

I don't have evidence of anything, no one does. We don't have evidence that there won't be any mistakes either.

In the past we could expect reliability, because the system was always reliable, within the processes and systems that people implemented around it.

It seems to me that a lot of those processes have been skipped.