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		MichaelZuo 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later,... Why would you mindlessly type away when you already know ahead of time, that they might be doing something tricky?

delaminator 2 days ago [–]

because the previous 30 times it didn't do it

MichaelZuo 1 day ago | [–]

Then it clearly it is an issue of overconfidence.

Since you can’t reliably catch 100% of tricks 100% of the time, continuing to do so is effectively guaranteering yourself to be tripped up in that 1 out of 100 times.

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