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Just do yourself a favor and stick with using what already works. Don't upgrade to the new shiny thing unless you already know the reasons why you want to. Among all the other tech…

> People are safer on the street. Only if you narrowly define 'people' to mean the tiny minority of people who are thieves, and exclude the overwhelming majority of people who aren…

> Amazon isn't a pawn shop Right, pawn shops are held to a higher standard. They have a relationship with the local police and are made to keep records. Amazon is a better fence th…

That's not necessarily a smoking gun; public libraries often give away old books they don't want to keep around anymore. About a quarter of the books in my personal library are ex-…

> But surely Amazon is literally handling stolen goods? Is there a smoking gun email? If Amazon were a mom and pop fence, the local cops could bust them in a sting. But Amazon is a…

> cuts into your margins It's not as though the thieves hire workers to do this for them. It's something they can do themselves while tweaking.

Accurate maybe, but very imprecise.

Removing each other from committees is a far cry from kicking each other out of Congress. That has only happened twice since the 19th century, and both times it came after a crimin…

This comment makes no sense in the context of America. I guess you're from a country with some sort of Parliamentary system where governments are formed when a party is elected? In…

You know Singapore unabashedly beats the shit out of thieves, right?

> "The stores are insured bro, why do you care if people steal from them? It's not your problem maaan." This is why I care. Criminals degrade society and we all suffer for their gr…

Made a new account, huh?

Apparently Airbnb will delete any review that criticizes a property for something the property owner can't fix. Loud traintracks with trains blasting by at 3am every morning? That'…

Who's 'we'? The user, or the web dev? Most javascript exists to scratch the itch of the webdev who made it, doing shit no user ever asked for.

Every web dev seems to think that their site specifically is the reason everybody in the world bought a computer.

> Brits should realize this is not 1921. Heh, well stated. The sun set on the British empire a long time ago. Expectations need to be adjusted accordingly.

I'm saying Bankman-Fried has hurt a few orders of magnitude more people than Alex Jones, and allowing him to give interviews and flippantly defend himself is going to cause a lot o…

> I don't really understand the perspective your are saying. He thinks that helping Ukraine defend themselves against a foreign invasion qualifies as "warmongering", obviously he's…

> What is the definition of violence? You've already conceded that words can hurt people (Alex Jones), so why are you trying to backpedal that now?

I bet more than one corner shop worker had money in FTX.

Once Bad Blood was published. It took a few years for the dam to break, but once it did the rest of the media piled on quick. The FTX dam broke a few weeks ago and so far the media…

The animation studio that did Stuart Little.