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If I were a hostile country and wanted to create a bit of chaos, I imagine I would try to do it at the most inconvenient time possible. Like, say, when the mar
by elihu 8y ago
If I were a hostile country and wanted to create a bit of chaos, I imagine I would try to do it at the most inconvenient time possible. Like, say, when the markets are unusually volatile and the president has been doing things that put everyone on edge, like fire his defense secretary and shut down the government.
Of course, it's also quite likely that this is just a coincidence and the transformer and network outage were just ordinary accidents.
- mistermann 8y agoHostile entity might be a better term considering the times we live in.
- hopler 8y agoThe US has been volatile for 2 years running. Cherrypicking examples to create the appearance of rare coincidence is bad stats.
- yebyen 8y agoBut... we are in the middle of a government shutdown, aren't we? And the stock market is also going bonkers just this last few days. Those are facts, and today this is another one. That's not cherry picking. That's not comprehensive or exhaustive fact-checking either. But they are sure facts!
- sgc 8y agoOr it might be directly related to furloughs somewhere leading to insufficient network maintenance.