disasters

Amateurs often help out with communications after natural disasters, and historically have often been the first to setup radio communication in areas struck by natural disasters.

There are sure some edge cases like Detroit or natural disasters like Katrina but overall this rule applies pretty well statistically[2].

You can find people predicting all kinds of disasters for the next 5 years and maybe some of them are right.

If you can't stop or predict natural disasters, make them predictable by causing them yourself!

There are probably examples of founders making similar mistakes leading to PR disasters.

Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

But Windows and mobile seem like industry-changing disasters now, and from the outside it seems like the icebergs shouldn't have been that hard to miss.

There are some disasters which are difficult to predict and uncertain.

I think it's clear he's talking about man-made disasters which have already been set in play (like global warming, overpopulation, war, etc.).

Emergency situations and natural disasters, where are the discussions?

Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures.

(Excepting Johnstown and Banqiao, dam failure mortality falls off rapidly, with another 8 disasters of 1,000+ lives.

Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters.

> Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters.

This is like saying "As construction workers we should be cheering for natural disasters, because there will be more work for construction workers to rebuild destroyed cities." Job security is great- but at what cost?