The Cobra Effect: law of unintended consequences, squared
@SmashMartian wrote: Rats had featured largely in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering...
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@Lexicat wrote: I bet that chasing down some first-person interviews or primary source material would give some interesting answers to precisely that question. Read full topic
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@retchdog wrote: yeah, they probably did, thereby flooding the market and crashing the price. it would, pretty quickly, get to the point where it's not even worth killing them. Read full topic
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@fuzzyfungus wrote: Glitch: Anyone who is clever enough to come up with the idea, and willing enough to put in the effort of raising them, surely would be smart enough to cut their losses instead of...
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@redesigned wrote: What the "War on [Cobra]" didn't work? -shocked- Knowing is half the battle! Read full topic
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@adonai wrote: Came here for this Pterry quote. Was not disappointed. Read full topic
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@Ratel wrote: On the plus side: cobras hunt other snakes, so this probably resulted in an overall reduction in venomous snake species. Read full topic
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@longname wrote: Reminds me of a story my grandfather told. The military used donkeys when turning Diego Garcia into a base. When finished, they released the donkeys. Who quickly overpopulated. The...
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@Jord wrote: There are positive ones as well. When wearing a helmet on a moped became the law in Holland, it reduced the number of stolen mopeds. Casual thieves, who just took a machine after a night...
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@davidrfrench wrote: The linked article suggests the story may be apocryphal. The BB summary writes it as fact. This is how myths become reality, and why people insist stories like the cruise control...
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@andy_hilmer wrote: peemlives: This sounds like one engagement away from a P.G. Wodehouse story. The Sharif of Byn Citadel's prize cobra, The Empress, is endangered in a plot by the Hindu gardener to...
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@davidrfrench wrote: Just remembered reading of another example: the Leakeys paying a bounty per bone fragment for hominid (hominin?) fossils in southern Africa. Locals would find a nicely preserved...
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@LemoUtan wrote: This might explain the hordes of thin-skinned ex-reality-tv folk aimlessly wandering around in the media. Read full topic
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@kamakiri wrote: Cobras are animals that just exist to make a living. They should not be feared, vilified or maltreated. Read full topic
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@fuzzyfungus wrote: I'm normally a trifle leery of 'why not just use lots of lethal force? We have plenty in stock!' Solutions; but in this case I can't shake the suspicion that just posting some guys...
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@peter_atjet wrote: In other news, the UK government's COBRA committee deals with existential threats (imminent terrorist attacks, ebola , floods etc ) Whether it is prone to the cobra effect is left...
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@chaitanyapatel wrote: Seconded. It's a cool story, but it's really shitty that Cory doesn't make it clear that it's not documented. The article would have been just as interesting if it had been...
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@fuzzyfungus wrote: I'm no fan of the 'snake! Yee-haw! kill it!' school; but when 'make a living' involves 'synthesize a veritable symphony of brutally elegant and unpleasantly synergistic...
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@GilbertWham wrote: Oooook! Read full topic
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@Shuck wrote: Snake bites kill something like 50,000 people a year (more than the rest of the world combined) in India. "Live and let live" is great and all, but the snakes can start first with that....
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