Historically, shitty radio communication has gotten a LOT of people killed during emergencies. I'm perfectly willing to accept you can shave off a few percents of risk by getting Dutch cops better radios. But it's hardly going to move the needle compared to "unskilled" Labour such as construction.
I do workplace safety in the Netherlands, so allow me to trot some numbers out.
3800 people die every year as a result of their jobs. 2500 from cancer, 700 from coronary issues. Over 400 die from falling or car crashes. So about 200 people die from all the stuff you'd generally associate with gruesome workplace hazards. Now, generally when I hold this talk, the point is "stop being a moron around chemicals", but this time my point is "Dutch cops are really unlikely to die from their work".
I mean, i have a doctorate, but like Phil, I can absolutely not practice psychology. (In my case it's because the doctorate is in Chemistry, not because I'm a quack and/or unethical scumbag)
The main appeal of credit cards is that their safety system has been so weak for so long, they had to develop amazing support systems just so people would use their horribly bad payment method.
The support systems still remain, so if I don't get my package, that's somehow the credit card company's problem now.
Yet they passed their both their law degree and the bar exam, so they can't be THAT stupid. Somewhere there's a small group of lawyers who are either really desperate, about to retire, or they have some kind of wild idea about this making them famous. And that group is rapidly being depleted, because even they're finding out you literally can't defend a moron like Trump, while also not getting paid.
The Ohio class submarine is armed with 144 nuclear warheads on 22 ballistic missiles, each bomb with almost 500ktons of explosive power. It was named for it's terrifying ability to turn any place on earth into another Ohio.
Well, things like "How do we make sure the person who claims to own this house actually owns this house" is definitely a real problem. But we've already solved that problem in another way. And we've spent hundreds of years ironing out all the little kinks in the system.
And the problem with blockchain (and every other 'disruptive' technology) is that it goes "Nah, we're going to throw all those unneeded things out". That then goes massively wrong, because, surprise, the system isn't complex for no reason.
It'd be great if that were true. Code only ever does one thing, but the US constitution doesn't really DO anything. It's just some vague concepts that were supposed to be revised later on, but now people just twist that vagueness into supporting their own goals.
Just rewrite the damn this instead of treating it like a holy book meant to be interpreted by the clergy.
To be fair this is hardly a problem unique to western capitalism.
The majority of western capitalist countries DON'T have legal slave labour in their prison system (or anywhere). I'm pretty sure it's actually only the USA
Historically, shitty radio communication has gotten a LOT of people killed during emergencies. I'm perfectly willing to accept you can shave off a few percents of risk by getting Dutch cops better radios. But it's hardly going to move the needle compared to "unskilled" Labour such as construction.
I do workplace safety in the Netherlands, so allow me to trot some numbers out.
3800 people die every year as a result of their jobs. 2500 from cancer, 700 from coronary issues. Over 400 die from falling or car crashes. So about 200 people die from all the stuff you'd generally associate with gruesome workplace hazards. Now, generally when I hold this talk, the point is "stop being a moron around chemicals", but this time my point is "Dutch cops are really unlikely to die from their work".