[tha0x5]

>The original claim was a casual "people don't care". Not a mathematical formalism for "absolutely nobody cares at all about this not even enough to wanna vote in on HN".

Eh, I disagree. They stated "literally no one cares", but the fact that it's news and hit the front page literally means someone cares. No math involved. QED.

>So, yeah, a tiny number of people (the HN upvoters) "do care" in the sense of voting this up and wanting to read about this. Then again, they also care about all minds of trivial posts, so there's that.

It wasn't trivial if Microsoft cared enough to fix it in a few days, which is like light speed for Microsoft.

>Heck, I read it and I don't care.

Anecdote, immaterial here.

>How about it's a insignificant series of small, insignificant purchasing decisions?

Possible, all conjecture at this point.

>Companies do apply it to everything. E.g.

You're just agreeing with what I said. It's illogic though because those companies didn't get away with it. Your links prove my point.

[coldtea]

>Eh, I disagree. They stated "literally no one cares", but the fact that it's news and hit the front page literally means someone cares. No math involved. QED.

Literally doesn't mean what you think it means. It's also a figure of speach. From the dictionary:

literally (2): "used for emphasis while not being literally true"

>It wasn't trivial if Microsoft cared enough to fix it in a few days, which is like light speed for Microsoft.

Issues/holes/leaks on public servers almost always get fixed on a few days, whether it's Microsoft or whatever. You maybe compare it to OS/app patches, with is not the same case.

>It's illogic though because those companies didn't get away with it.

They just got a slap on the wrist for billions in profit.

[tha0x5]

>Literally doesn't mean what you think it means. It's also a figure of speach. From the dictionary:

Wrong, and you're the one confused here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...

1) in a literal sense or manner : actually 2) in effect : virtually

They were saying "in effect, virtually no one cares". Even then, that's demonstrably wrong as shown above.

>Issues/holes/leaks on public servers almost always get fixed on a few days, whether it's Microsoft or whatever.

Wrong, places like Apple, Facebook, etc. typically fix customer leaking issues like this in hours, not days.

>You maybe compare it to OS/app patches, with is not the same case.

Not comparing, but even those are slow.

>They just got a slap on the wrist for billions in profit.

Many people indicted and jailed and billions upon billions of fines. Absolutely not a slap on the wrist.