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mcintyre1994 on May 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: When should I not kill -9 a process?

It seems more like saying "children, cyclists, animals, other drivers. If your car can't do emergency braking you might as well stop driving and buy a lottery ticket" to me. Which IMO is pretty reasonable. They don't say anything about when to use kill -9 (all examples are outside user control) just that it should be survivable.

al_gore on May 24, 2014 [–]

I get what you're going for, but it's pretty much openly legal to kill pedestrians with cars (in the US, at least). "No criminality suspected"!

aaronem on May 24, 2014 | [–]

There's a little more to the United States than the city of New York. I grant it is an uncommonly large city, but it's not that large.

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