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This feels like support for something Bernard Ingham said, "Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they woul
by M_Grey 10y ago
This feels like support for something Bernard Ingham said, "Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory."
Then the paranoid part of me wonders if that's the plan. Then the skeptical part of me says, "Occam's Razor". Then I remember that I'm insignificant in relation to these issues and I have some tea.
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- schizoidboy 10y agoThis is one of my favorite comments ever. It captures so much. I often find myself in an infinite loop of "maybe X, but on the other hand Y" and periodically I just need to `kill -9`... until the next time curiosity forks.
- contingencies 10y agoThe more general form is known as Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
- arca_vorago 10y agoWhich i have pointed out time and time again on HN is a logical fallacy on its bare face, it's usually wrong, and is not a useful phrase whatsoever in intellectually honest conversation and should be relegated to the dustbin of phrases where it belongs.
- M_Grey 10y agoIt's actually pretty comforting to see that a lot of other people here feel the same way!
- lvs 10y agoYes, your thought process was very much the intended goal of this "leak." Mission accomplished.
- meowface 10y agoDo you have any evidence to support that or are you just going along with OP's thought loop? As far as I can tell, incompetence by far seems to be most likely here. I don't think NSA would wittingly give up so many nice zero-days to their first or second most powerful rival agency.
- brainfire 10y agoAh, but now some people on the internet think they made a mistake. That's priceless.