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Re:Audiblegate by throwanem on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:28AM (#30370447)
The first two words of the rule are "never assume".
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Re:Audiblegate by bitcharmer on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:03AM (#30371000)
Reductio ad absurdum.

If you were really honest about the meaning of the quote you should say "never assume malice" because that's the actual statement here.

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Re:Audiblegate by doctor_eval on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:11AM (#30371854)
Not at all. If you have two equally likely possibilities - malice and incompetence - you should assume incompetence.

I have another saying though: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”.

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