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And one more point (also: the rationale for regulations in medicine) - in programming you are allowed to risk a lot more. Create a social network and the it fails? No problem! Running out of money so you need to shout down you server? OK!

And in general - approach "we have no idea if it is going to work, but let's try!".

In medicine, a failure may cost thousands of lives (and in past it did, a lot of times), so time and cost overhead is enormous.




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