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This response reminds me of this meme:

https://randysrandom.com/wp-content/uploads/right-wrong.jpg

Neither answer may look technically wrong, but only one reflects what is actually happening here. That we don't know which exactly based on that specific data doesn't mean that both are equally valid.

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That meme’s sort of funny in a meta way because presumably the person who actually drew the number (the comic artist) drew it as both a 9 and a 6, so in that one particular case they actually are both right.

The sentiment of the red message is great though.

Yes and if we really really cared about this, we’d launch an investigation. But we don’t care that much. We just want to scroll this thread a bit, come to a conclusion about Cloudflare and move on to the next HN thread. Given that we’re going to spend only a couple of minutes on this, it’s easy to figure out which answer we’re going to agree with - the one that confirms our previous belief about Cloudflare.

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