On 2026-Oct-15, shihao zhong wrote:
> Someone told me a story today. If you build a payroll app and it
> breaks one time in x, would you ship it? That one time is someone
> who does not get paid. A rare bug is still a real bug for whoever
> hits it.
Some definitely would.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of
livelihoods and homes, debts, and bankruptcies led to stress, illness
and family breakdowns, and were linked to at least thirteen suicides.
In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of
the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.
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