At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care about?
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Yeah, the Austrians are saying that, but here in Germany we say the same about them.
They managed to convince people that Beethoven was Austrian, and Hitler German.
I was born in the wrong country.
Thank you.
Even at high-functioning companies, people don't report or fix glaring problems in documentation and training material. There are quite a lot of not-so-high-functioning companies in the world.
They're both pretty unlikely but at YouTube scale both are real.
15 years later it's much easier to trawl through millions of videos by incrementing and check them automatically for nudity than anyone thought it would be back in the day.
There’s too many IDs to iterate through. Searching for $defatltvideoname for some camera is far more effective for that. Scarily so.
They’re YouTube. At their scale, there’s no such thing as an “edge case.”
But at YouTube scale, the cases need to get weirder and weirder to fall into 'not-yet-handled' territory.
Sometimes all the holes in the cheese still align.
This can be hard to imagine for a problem solver personality. How can people be so helpless?
But it’s basically because people have learned that complaining usually achieves nothing so they don’t even bother.
The reductive logic here is something else