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ragallyesterday at 8:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Very often you only have limited time for investigation and you have to act now. Action is almost always based on educated guesses.


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awesome_dudeyesterday at 8:37 PM

You have moved from "We know" to "We have an educated guess" which is the right way to couch things.

However I wanted to also point out that relying only on educated guesses can lead us into a position where we are "papering over the cracks" or "addressing the symptoms", not the "underlying cause"

Yes, sometimes that's all that can be done, but, also, sometimes it can be more damaging than the cause itself (thinking in terms of the cause continuing to fester away, whilst we think it's 'solved')

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