And the most stupid rules you can have for a password.

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"asdfghjkl"
"lkjhgfdsa"
"zxcvbnm"
"mnbvcxz"
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Yes, I know most of the names in Google Maps (in China) are automatically translated, but I find this one particularly funny.

The Black Swan. Overall a good book, although it was not as surprising as I think the author imagined it. I found most ideas common sense. Nicely explained and argumented though.

Some quotes I liked:

Chance favors the prepared.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

I am a no-nonsense practitioner.

I worry less about terrorism than about diabetis.

I don't run after trains.

It's more difficult to be a loser in a game you set up yourself.

A few years ago I read an article in which a car magazine modified the “sports” model of some production car to get the fastest possible standing quarter mile. You know how they did it? They cut off all the crap the manufacturer had bolted onto the car to make it look fast.

Paul Gragam