Bro lost me at "Only a finite number of events actually happened..."

Actually, he lost me earlier, cos "The admin didn't configure file purging" is something that did happen: the admin failed to take an action. The event happened even if the action didn't; the article confuses the two

It doesn't really matter tho since this article is really just a piece of advice on how to handle incident reports in a tactful and constructive manner, not a serious argument about causality