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What a scary situation (for once that word seems properly used here).

They weren't even taking into account things like uncertainty and fat tail events, which is the usual cause of complacency and disaster in these sort of situations. Take an average hundred year span and it was almost certain to collapse and kill thousands. Wow.

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