This is a similar story with accountants: "Why do you care that the books don't balance by $87?" "Because if the books don't balance something went wrong with the process and *I don't know how wrong until I know what it was*."
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A question which could stand to be asked more often here: "What is the *optimal* number of errors and are we below it?"
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Are you suggesting that other cultures do things that are completely internally rational and that it’s only outsider’s failure to understand the context that makes them seem silly?
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That is often but not always the case.
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Sydney improved their train on time departures by redefining "on time as up to 10mins late". Opposite land.
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Would be great to have this problem in NYC cc:
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Hmm not convinced. Humans != machines. Some poor sod probably feeling terrible right now.
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you can miss a connection because of a 20-second-early departure, so I perfectly see the point
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Six Sigma, baby.
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Meanwhile, in the US, the train actually arrives at it's destination on the proper day instead of derailing into a river, etc.
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