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I think that liability shouldn't require perfection, just close enough as long as the criteria is objective.

I personally think that any criteria that SQLite and Curl can't pass is too strict.

>>gavinh+(OP)
The AMA doesn’t require perfection, yet a doctor has to pay six-figure liability insurance premiums for the risk of harming a small fraction of his patients. I don’t have faith that this would be run more practically.

>>erik_s+DB
We have that problem in the medical world, but for some reason, we don't have it in the engineering world.

Why? I don't know. Is the medical world just messed up? Or is there something wrong with licensure?

>>gavinh+XB1
I think it’s because civil and mechanical engineering weren’t invented from scratch in living memory. We already have some safe, conservative materials and designs for them to reuse.

Our profession is still in a very early stage, sort of like the era of barbers performing surgery.