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unaesthetic on April 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaint...

Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

AnimalMuppet on April 10, 2023 [–]

Right. My comment is a reverse of that, expressed in a similar form to Clarke's Law that "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

But I stole it. I didn't make it up.

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