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sev0 on March 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simple Systems Have Less Downtime

"Law" can also be used for pithy statements that don't have to be particularly rigorous. C.f. Murphy's Law.

K0SM0S on March 3, 2020 [–]

This statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-)

More seriously, I think the word OP is looking for is theory. Nuggets aren't theory, they're really empirical by essence — observations.

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