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venkyk | 14 years ago

I rather wish they had worded it as 'We assume you are not stupid'. Or they are assuming wrong in my case?

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jaysonelliot|14 years ago

"We assume you are not stupid" means they are making an assumption of intelligence, whereas "we don't assume you are stupid" means they make no assumption one way or the other.

I wonder which is more appropriate?

lsc|14 years ago

My intent was to say, in a positive way, "If you are unwilling to learn how a serial console works, or how OpenSSH public key authentication works, I'll refund your money and send you to Linode."

venkyk|14 years ago

I see your point. However, I keep reading it as "We don't (have to) assume you are stupid. (We know so)".

WiseWeasel|14 years ago

As a stupid person, I was offended.

redslazer|14 years ago

The fact you understand what the page is even about, means that you are not in anyway a stupid person.