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by pkrumins 3145 days ago
I don't like people who hedge. I like risk takers.
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Hedging isn't the avoidance of risk, it's reasoning what risks are worth taking and hedging against those not worth taking.

Put in other terms, when you have to play cowboy on a production server, you take a backup first to hedge your bets; otherwise you aren't brave, you're just foolish.