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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Playing devils advocate here:

Automated systems are not maintenance or error free and the costs of mistakes are vast. It may have been designed to detect problems and shut itself down; but has it been maintained well enough to successfully do so? Maybe, maybe not.

Given how well maintained most public infrastructure is, I'm not very confident.