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Or it’s just a bug.
by anonuser123456 4y ago
Or it’s just a bug.
- pluc 4y agoNever attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
- bacchusracine 4y ago>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity People this smart don't get to claim this level of stupidity. As others have said already, their reputation precedes them. Never underestimate the value of a good (or bad) name.
- DangitBobby 4y agoA very useful policy for malicious people.
- anonuser123456 4y agoIn my experience, malicious people with high competency cover their ass with giant fig leaves. They don’t let it hang in the breeze.
- nerdponx 4y agoPlenty of malicious people are incompetent!
- subarctic 4y agoPlenty of non-malicious people are incompetent, and there's a lot more of them
- account42 4y agoThere might be a lot more non-malicious people in the population as a whole but I would not be surprised if there are more malicious than non-malicious people in positions of power, including those positions where you can make anti-competitive decisions for a giant megacorporation. But even if that is not the case and malicious people are not the norm even there, using Hanlon's razor to try and shut down any discussion of possible malicious actions still ends up empowering the malicious actors that do exist. It's a decent rule for first interactions with human people that you don't know better but is absolutely not the right tool for corporate entities who can much more easily brush off any consequences for being caught acting maliciously. It is outright stupid to apply it to corporations that have a history of maliciousness.
- subarctic 4y agoWell, I guess you do have a point there about regular people vs corporate entities that start with M and end with icrosoft
- nerdponx 4y agoThe entire point of my post is that Hanlon's razor is not a useful prior when the malice would be in service of greed.
- webmaven 4y agoOr as Upton Sinclair put it: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."