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		DrillShopper 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open afte... Someone told me something that stuck with me: "for any system with millions of users a 1 in a million event happens multiple times a day"

theolivenbaum 9 months ago [–]

I think the original quote was "One in a million is next Tuesday": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...

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