If the flood-defences hold, if the summer isn't as hot the last year, if the storms go away for a season... All must be well, mustn't it?
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This is a very important general point: people are far too inclined to believe that a crisis averted was never a crisis at all.pic.twitter.com/vuJNvid0Bb
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See also: Ebola.
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See also: bird flu....
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See also: CFCs
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And HIV. The huge public awareness campaigns in the late 80s was later ridiculed by some as overkill.
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My partner is the same, it irritates him when people say "hehe, it's like the millennium bug, all that hysteria and it turned out to be NBD"
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.the fact that we addressed the millennium bug so well was terrible for IT budgets in 2000s; we spent all that money and 'nothing happened'
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And we still hear IT is just a money sink.
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in all honesty, it was only a bug for anyone with a really old and out dated software/hardware.
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Which, as you well know, was and still is, pretty much everywhere that's important. Need to clarify tweet irony for the ignorant.
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Apparently it wasn't irony. So we'll just reclassify that as ignorant. Yes there was hype but also much real & serious work done for y2k.
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@JamesTitcombe some interesting parallels for patient safety here, I think.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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It's cognitive bias. When we don't see a disastrous result, we're inclined to believe that there was never a problem.
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Spent years of my life on y2k fixing. Had some practice in 70s tho replacing a payroll system written with *one* digit dates!
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People worked their asses off to fix this problem & then folks said, "What a hoax! Nothing happened!!"
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@cracksh0t there was a potential crisis. That's not what the media got away with telling everyone, howeverThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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Yes and the fact that the USSR and South Africa avoided civil wars when the previous regimes went was due to luck & hard work.
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Interesting. Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen
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Most extreme example thereof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov … (who may be the only reason any of us are here)
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