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		yieldcrv 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I code as a CTO > foregoing required legal depending on the legal requirement it may not have been foregoed but instead became legal because an executive did it

sokoloff 11 days ago [–]

I took that a step farther and got written into our SOX compliance processes explicit “deviate from normal processes as much as required when this short list of people declare an emergency”, shamelessly cribbed from aviation law.

Slightly more details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39174707

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