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[–] 97 points 8 months ago (9 children)

One of the best ways to get information out of people who are hoarding knowledge is to say something so blatantly false to them that they can't help but lecture you on why you're wrong.

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  • [–] 54 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Uhm actually, that is Cunningham's law after Howard Cunningham, developer of the first wiki!

    Murphy's law states that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" smhmh.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Um actually you're wrong, what you're referencing is Poe's law,
    Cunninghams law is "whoever smelt it, dealt it"

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I thought Cunningham's law had to do with over-intelligent pigs

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Nah, over-intelligent pigs is covered in "Animal Farm", a classic dystopian novel by George OrwellAldous Huxley shit sorry I accidentally misremembered it right.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    That's true now, but Murphy actually said "if there's two ways of doing something people will do it wrong every time"

    What can go wrong will go wrong was Finagle's law until Murphy came along with a better name for a similar rule

    But Murphy's rule was better before as it gave a solution: ensure there's only one way to do a thing

    Murphy was a test subject for acceleration tests on rocket sleds. One run was ruined as all the accelerometers had been plugged in the wrong way, so no acceleration data was collected

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