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by bryanlarsen 3442 days ago
It's luck but in the sense of that Seneca quote: "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"
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I don't like those quotes (like 'the harder I work, the luckier I get') because 'luck' by it's very definition is random. We had a horrible situation in Melbourne yesterday where some nutbag drove his car down a busy sidewalk killing 4 people. It was luck (very bad luck) that those people were there in that moment and killed. That's luck. And btw, my partner and kids were there only 5 minutes before.