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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: A broad ranging historical survey of natural and man-made disasters...
“[Herein] lies the origins of the most terrible of all man-made disasters. Most terrible because it was carried out by a highly educated people employing the most advanced technologies and often claiming to act on the basis of science.”
To what is author Niall Ferguson referring in that quote from Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe? The COVID-19 pandemic, which was almost certainly caused by a virus that leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China? Or the Holocaust, in which the Nazis devised highly efficient systems for exterminating as many Jews as possible?...
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