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danohu ([personal profile] danohu) wrote2010-11-16 08:20 am

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There's a commission in the US, investigating the BP oil spill. Last week, the chief counsel said:
To date, we have not found a single instance where human beings made a conscious decision to favor dollars over safety,


I find this utterly bizarre. However angelic BP might be (?), surely it's impossible to run an engineering project on this scale without trade-offs between cost and safety? Won't there always be another layer of expensive and marginally-useful checks that you could add?

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