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		perbu on June 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (stupidity is the wrong term here, lazyness is more apt). Firefox is a the one different browser with an entirely different pedigree. Assumptions made about _all– other browser will not necessarily hold true for Firefox.

M2Ys4U on June 20, 2024 [–]

>"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (stupidity is the wrong term here, lazyness is more apt).

Ah, but sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice

Bender on June 20, 2024 | [–]

Adding for completeness sake, two things can be simultaneously true.

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