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		pg314 on Dec 30, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US government to withdraw longstanding warnings ab... The 'dust' in your metaphor are human lives. Most software does not involve life-and-death situations. In cases that do, e.g. the space shuttle, they don't use rapid iteration [1]. [1] https://www.nap.edu/read/2222/chapter/5#48

billions on Dec 30, 2016 [–]

how many lives were lost due to over-regulation of fats instead of sugar? i stand by my belief that experimentation with 1000 different diets will prove the subset that works over time.

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