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> Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. That law exists at least since 2008, over a decade and a half ago. It’s plausible it was true and born from obse
by latexr 2y ago
> Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false.
That law exists at least since 2008, over a decade and a half ago. It’s plausible it was true and born from observation at the time. The first Snowden documents were published half a decade later, in 2013.
- ForHackernews 2y agoYeah, so a decade-old now-dead trend isn't a "law" or we could be talk about the "Iron Law of jQuery: All sites will expand until they include at least three incompatible versions of jQuery".