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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by nerdponx on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:48AM (#41066724)
When money is at stake, never attribute to incompetence what could be attributed to greed.
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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by gregw2 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @07:32AM (#41067318)
Nice twist on the incompetence version of Hanlon's razor... does it have a name? "Nerdponx's razor" will have a hard time catching on...

EDIT: I see esmifra on Reddit said this six years ago... but not sure "esmifra's razor" would catch on either. https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/8itqf5/comment/d...

And I see there is a similar but less catchily-worded concept, "Hubbard's corollary" from 2020 mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for Hanlon's razor... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by nerdponx on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:40PM (#41073682)
I actually thought I made it up, and almost called it "Nerdponx's Razor", but I thought it would be arrogant to name it after myself. Hubbard can take the credit!
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