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by f1shy 253 days ago
I do not know who is doing the math, but deleting production data does not sound very cheap to me...
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No, but the decision is taken on the basis that it probably will not happen, and if it does there is a good chance that the person taking the decision will not be the one to bear the consequences.

That is why I chose to compare it to the 2008 crash. The people who took the decisions to take the risks that lead to it came out of it OK.