• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    reminds me of the poor guy cycling the world and was killed on the road in Northern Australia some years back.

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      Or MIT prof, Seymour Papert, who was visiting Hanoi for a conference and had been discussing how to build a mathematical computer model of Hanoi’s notoriously chaotic traffic to present at the end of it. He ended up getting hit crossing the street and ended up in a coma for weeks. Complications from it eventually killed him.