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I think dhh tried to address that with his comment yes, yes, if you were working on an airport control system for launching rockets to Mars and the rockets would hit the White House if they weren’t scheduled with a name, you can test it—but you aren’t, so forget it


That's a hyperbolic comparison. Yes, focusing on outliers makes all the other data points look the same. My point is that in the context of each team/app, those differences in acceptable risk matter.




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