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A comment on Instagram's Million Dollar Bug. Parent comment

Re:Instagram's Million Dollar Bug by dandelany on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:18PM (#10755741)
Alex said they "have no evidence" it happened, which is classic slippery legalese. From that phrase it is reasonable to infer either that they have evidence of absence, or absence of evidence, which are not the same thing.
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Re:Instagram's Million Dollar Bug by eastonhockey19 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:48PM (#10755855)
It's standard wording for something like this even if they had 100% evidence of absence.
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Re:Instagram's Million Dollar Bug by dandelany on Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:07PM (#10756565)
Correct. It's the standard wording, whether or not they actually have evidence. Therefore we cannot assume, as you have earlier in this thread, that they do in fact have it.
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