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I think some of the fear of crashes comes from the Great Depression. The magnitude and unpleasantness of that makes a great deal of fear seem quite a rational response.

It's probably better to resist the temptation to ascribe meaning to models. The model is the meaning, nothing more or less. If we observe these artifacts, it means that's a propert…

A woman can have 13 or more children in her reproductive lifecycle. I think you'd have to call this a large family, or at most a very large family, or else I have to call a family …

Windows can't open a raw socket. I find that really irks me for some reason. Overall, I find Windows superior after using Macs for a couple of years. The UI of Windows feels much b…

This statement implies that you know better than Crick and Watson what contributed to their discovery. That's absurd.

If he didn't have any real insight and just pretended to, he'd be a con man.

I believe his experience was authentic. I don't think he's any kind of con man. Sometimes I don't like some of the details of his writing, or the spin he puts on things. I think th…

I think that depends on your attitude toward it. People who are self-consciously smart and think it's worth something are irritating, like beautiful people who feel like they don't…

It's a vision not fully realized. It's not any more anti-consumer than an unfinished bridge is anti-motorist.

avoid retyping the file name: nc -l 8888 | tar xf - tar cf - file | nc host.example.com 8888 Also, unnecessary process spawned with cat: nc.host.example.com 8888 < file