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Can't disagree but The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR wasn't exactly driven by profit motive and we still got Chernobyl.


We got Chernobyl because there wasn't transparency. The flaw that caused the explosion was known to the USSR but it was covered up and a correction to existing reactors in production was not implemented until after it became impossible to ignore. The same would be happening to production reactors here in the US if it weren't for the strict government regulations that ensured that no western reactors could be built the way Chernobyl was (no containment building, graphite moderation etc.). This regulation is forcing transparency in design.


That's true, but money saving did result in the lack of a proper containment building.


All those are about dropping DSLR in favor of mirrorless / compact cameras, not phones. Phones get mentioned but the authors are still using dedicated cameras.


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