[HN Gopher] Murphy's Law and Its Progeny
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       Murphy's Law and Its Progeny
        
       Author : turtledragonfly
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-01-09 17:33 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | iamthirsty wrote:
       | Some of my favorites:
       | 
       | > SECOND LAW OF APPLIED CONFUSION                   Truck
       | deliveries that normally         take one day will take five when
       | you are waiting for the truck.
       | 
       | > MALEK'S LAW                   Any simple idea will be worded in
       | the most         complicated way.
       | 
       | > BALLANCE'S LAW OF RELIABILITY                   How long a
       | minute is depends         on which side of the bathroom door
       | you're on.
        
       | jareklupinski wrote:
       | is there one for the inevitability of catastrophe during a big
       | presentation?
       | 
       | hence the ritualistic offering to the 'demo gods'
       | 
       | (personally i break something on purpose right before the demo,
       | so that the 'something will go wrong' had had already 'gone
       | wrong', but i'm now in a much better position to fix it live (no
       | troubleshooting your own bug))
        
       | appplication wrote:
       | I have a shitty Whirpool fridge. It has taught me a few others:
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       | - If a product offers a warranty, it will be a pain in the ass to
       | claim against it
       | 
       | - A lifetime warranty is only true for creative interpretations
       | of "lifetime"
       | 
       | - The limits of any limited warranty are well before any
       | condition that requires a warranty claim
       | 
       | - if a product is going to break, it will do so no less than 1
       | day and no more than 90 days after your warranty expires
       | 
       | - If service is provided in fulfillment of some warranty
       | agreement, it will not be provided on terms that accommodate your
       | schedule.
       | 
       | - Corollary 1: the service technician will invariably need to
       | reschedule last minute to an even less accommodating time
       | 
       | - Corollary 2: when the service technician arrives, they will
       | invariably inform you that they lack other the parts or expertise
       | to resolve the issue
        
         | OkayPhysicist wrote:
         | The "lifetime" warranty on Jansport bags definitely uses a
         | creative interpretation of "lifetime", but in the consumer's
         | favor. I ended up making a warranty claim on a external frame
         | bag that I inherited from my grandfather after his death, such
         | that the bag had outlived not only the purchaser, but also the
         | retailer it was bought from, anybody involved in manufacturing
         | it, the product line it was from, and rapidly it would seem the
         | entire product style.
        
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