I'm sorry. I reacted badly. Both you and @zahlman gave the same advice with the same reasoning and I have extensive personal experience that means I know this can cause total data loss.
It is bad and dangerous advice.
If you don't believe me, I can give you the steps to reproduce. Others have posted comments to this effect here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768833
Seeing it twice in one thread, I overreacted.