This reminds me of one of the funniest products I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU

This is the "kosher switch" - observant Jews customarily do not use light switches on Saturday (their weekly holy day). This light switch represents a workaround where when you flip the switch, it randomly generates an on or off signal and emits this through an optical coupler. When the random number sufficiently causes the state of the light to change, it latches in that direction.

This is a way of turning the lights on and off without violating the tradition.

"I didn't switch the light, the random number did!"

"I didn't exploitVulnerability(), random number did!"

It’s not random, it’s just delayed. Why do they think god would fall for that?

If they think a rule is dumb, just change the rule. Don’t try and pretend you’ve outsmarted the system.

Also interesting https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/25924/if-my-home...

I know we're like two tangents deep, but the funniest work around to me is the guy who legally buys all the hametz in Israel every Passover:

https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-796487

Yeah..this seems like BS. There's a (probabilistic) causal variable here (the flipping of the switch) that, in expectation, produces some outcome.

This is the same problem that we have in society: there are lots of bad actions that do not lead directly to bad outcomes for others, but in expectation they do.

In that religion, finding weird loopholes in God's laws is seen as a good thing, and something that entertains God. Whereas hacking is hacking.