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yummyfajitas on Nov 6, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed?

Note: "software goes down" is a euphemism for "the corrupt city government decided not to pay for the software license, and the company shut it down."

At least that's what happened in Hoboken.

jonknee on Nov 6, 2009 [–]

Well yes, but I was speaking in general. The system could go down (software problem, extended power outage, broken robots, etc etc). I think the benefits outweigh that though.

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