jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.world · 14 days ago'Nobody believes you': Library of Congress blames missing Constitution sections on 'coding error'www.alternet.orgexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1803arrow-down12
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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·14 days agoI buy that. Yeah the messed up formatting is an excellent point, I’ve messed up formatting the exact same way forgetting an end tag or something. So you think it was a ‘hacker’ or an external govt employee? Or someone internal to the dept that tried to do something that stupid? I guess it could be either…
minus-squarelogicbomb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 days agoI’d go by Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
minus-squaremister_flibble@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·14 days agoI feel like there should be an addendum called Trump’s razor: if there’s a possible explanation that’s both malicious AND stupid, it’s probably the correct one. Your previous theory would fit.
minus-squareregedit@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoI was thinking the same. tRump’s Razor starts as malice and, through sheer incompetence, becomes stupid.
minus-squareLousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 days agoi’ve run into far too much naked malice lately to attribute it to stupidity
minus-squarelogicbomb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoIn that case, it would not be adequately explained as stupidity.
I buy that. Yeah the messed up formatting is an excellent point, I’ve messed up formatting the exact same way forgetting an end tag or something.
So you think it was a ‘hacker’ or an external govt employee? Or someone internal to the dept that tried to do something that stupid?
I guess it could be either…
I’d go by Hanlon’s Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I feel like there should be an addendum called Trump’s razor: if there’s a possible explanation that’s both malicious AND stupid, it’s probably the correct one. Your previous theory would fit.
I was thinking the same. tRump’s Razor starts as malice and, through sheer incompetence, becomes stupid.
i’ve run into far too much naked malice lately to attribute it to stupidity
In that case, it would not be adequately explained as stupidity.