That's why your operating systems and your personal computers often crash for no apparent reason. Just because two things happen to, once in a while, occur at the same time.

这就是为什么你的电脑或者操作系统,经常会毫无预兆的崩溃了,这是因为两件事情正好同时发生了，通常还有人工输入。

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You want to talk about it systematically, but how can you talk about anything systematically if you don't know what it is?

人们总希望系统化地谈一件事，但是你一点都不了解它,怎么能系统化地谈它呢？

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You can see how things are feeding through the system: it starts out in one thing, it goes to the insurance companies, and then it goes to the municipal governments.

你能看到事件是如何在系统里相互影响的,它开始于一件事,它涉及到了保险公司,然后又传递到地方政府

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