unrecoverable

Customers lose credentials constantly, and won't tolerate being told that this means their account is unrecoverable.

I didn't use panic because although a non 32 character secret puts my library in an unrecoverable state, it doesn't mean the application implementing the library is also in an unrecoverable state, hence why it returns an error instead of panicing.

And which, even when they are not intended to be malicious will break your system in an unrecoverable way...

If it's not dangerous to transport the contraband to some unrecoverable location, why not just destroy it?

Since you're sending the identical stream twice, there's a 1-(1-gamma)^2 chance that your overall transmission is unrecoverable.

Risk: you are planting an unrecoverable flaw deep in the heart of your company.

The idea that bitcoins are largely untraceable and unrecoverable does not to me (I'm afraid) seem like an advantage.

To get into a situation where secrets were unrecoverable, you'd have to lose all your super-user keys and all the admin/client keys with access.

Even if cryonics worked, which it doesn't, that would still be unrecoverable.

I'm thinking (unrecoverable data loss / total data stored) in their system per year.

If they decide that the robotics lab is unrecoverable then the jobs will simply transfer from CM to Uber which has no direct benefit to Pittsburgh at all.

As such, lending club loans have a far lower default rate across the board (Prosper indicates a >20% charge-off rate -- that's 20% of loans becoming unrecoverable losses.

ACH is the worst and most things (this included) have to use gross "refund" hacks to send money to a user's debit card because ACH is so slow, unrecoverable, and a large number of people just give you a blank stare if you ask for their Routing + Account numbers.