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		saagarjha on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SR... Which, of course, led to people dying when the drift was too great.

perihelions on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

Context for those unfamiliar:

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patriot%20missile (HN threads)

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