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Radioactive
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
—Tony Hoare
Dmitri could no longer decide which he hated more, going to the bathroom to pee or taking the tablets Dash demanded he ingest every four hours throughout the day. He supposed he hated going to the bathroom more, because his fingers trembled a bit as he took the urine sample to put it in the beta radiation detector. The trembling invariably caused him to make a mess of the process. Urine everywhere.
Moreover, the trembling was not caused by his fear of finding radiation. Rather, the trembling was caused by the pills. Intellectually, he understood that he should hate taking the pills because they were the cause of the trembling that caused the problem with the urine. His emotional reaction, however, led him t
