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Comment by hahajk

19 hours ago

Related: Science is a strong-link problem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712694

Things like lottery tickets are "strong link" problems (the system's value equals the strongest link's value); food safety is a "weak link" problem (the safety of a meal equals the least safe bite of food).

It appears that the author is advocating for "weak link" standards for CSS (it matters more what the vast majority see, knocking it out of the park once or twice won't make up for the failures)