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ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Because if a poor person living in the projects dies of starvation? Oh, that's fine. That's a feature, not a bug.

What's "the projects" in this context? I'm not a native English speaker and have seen this used in similar contexts but I don't know what it means. Translation fails me, I know what the word means but it clearly has some different usage here.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"The Projects" is a term used to describe government provided (or subsidized) housing for poor people. The term is generally used to indicate "a place in a city where income is low and crime is usually high".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Ghetto. It's a flowery way to say ghetto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

In UKese it’s “council estate “