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Add Hanlon's razor Human OS comment.

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This page collects comments which make unnecessary or tenuous analogies to computers, programming, dollar-sign $variables, sed's/replace/syntax/g, mathematics, AI/machine learning, and cryptography in discussions that aren't about those things. This page collects comments which make unnecessary or tenuous analogies to computers, programming, dollar-sign $variables, sed's/replace/syntax/g, mathematics, AI/machine learning, and cryptography in discussions that aren't about those things.
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
> -Hanlon's razor
> > Advanced malicious actors often feign incompetence when caught, to take advantage of the naive and forgiving.
> > > This is a basic part of the human OS.
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> Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. > Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS.
> I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. > I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard.