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Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by drdec »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #248
fsloth wrote: post #131

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Maybe it’s my nordic background where people value independence (perhaps patholohically so). In general if a husband had any moderately dangerous hobbies it would sound a bit weird where I’m from that they stopped them just because they got married and had kids. And if they had apprehended Woz he would probably had a lawyer to bail him out and smooth things over. So coming from these two directions the argument that…

> And if they had apprehended Woz he would probably had a lawyer to bail him out and smooth things over. One can have a good lawyer but that lawyer cannot change the facts of the case.

A lawyer can help you decide which facts to reveal and which to withhold. A good lawyer will prevent you from making the state's case for them.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by DarknessFalls »

dereg wrote: post #169
dist1ll wrote: post #36

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Isn't it pretty irresponsible to commit a felony while you have a daughter and wife to take care of? I find his nonchalant delivery quite jarring. I don't understand what's going through his head here.

I can’t help but shake my head at most of these comments. There was a time when we celebrated anecdotes like this here on Hacker News. I’ve seen this story circulated many times but this is the first time I’ve seen this sort of reaction. These aren’t rose colored glasses, anyone can look up threads of old in which we cheered such defiance toward authority. People are frothing to frame this story with 2023 glasses and…

I appreciate this comment more than you could know. The color is getting sucked out of life by people like this.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by hnfong »

ilammy wrote: post #108
Aardwolf wrote: post #34

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Despite being similar value, for euros, the bills only start at 5 euro, while 1 and 2 euro are coins.

There is also a story that US cannot change the design of their $1 bill because of Big Vending.

Inflation might get things moving! :)

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by quesera »

coeneedell wrote: post #267
hueyluey wrote: post #218

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What do you mean by "dishonerable" here? Is this an instance of how Americans love the military so much that it's difficult to understand for people from other countries (where being a military isn't different from being a shop owner, or carpenter or doctor or whatever)?

No matter what country you’re in, the military is in a position of authority (except maybe Costa Rica). Generally people consider a lie to be worse if it’s a lie you can use to get power.

> No matter what country you’re in, the military is in a position of authority

In the United States, the military has no authority over citizens. It's a foundational law. Exceptions can be made under temporary and unusual circumstances.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by hindsightbias »

ksaj wrote: post #128
crispyambulance wrote: post #50

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It was the mid 80's, well before 9-11. Airport security was far more lax. Everything was far more lax. There was no way to easily verify ID anyway.

Yes, it was a very different world than it is now. I had a 22 caliber rifle when I was a tween. That wasn't uncommon because I lived in the country, and you pretty much needed such things to scare coyotes and wolves off the yard without hurting them. Obviously it can kill them, but you don't actually shoot them - you shoot close enough they understand the sound from your gun, and the sound on the ground right in fron…

Rifles in truck window gun racks was a thing. In my high school parking lot.

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Post by scarface74 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #339
scarface74 wrote: post #336

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> think what it also reminds us of is that law enforcement actually used to be a lot more reasonable No, it just use to be a lot less recorded… And no minority with a sense of history would say that police have ever been “reasonable”

So in my comment that was only like five sentances, one of them was "to be clear, this may probably only apply to white people who appear as if they are not poor", right? I'm curious if you are old enough to remember the 80s, although I'm not going to bet any precious precious donuts about it. How state violence and repression was in the 80s isn't good enough, agreed. But things actually do change, get better and wor…

Yes, I was born in 1974 hence the username. I also grew up in the south and heard plenty of first hand accounts from my grandparents and my still living Black parents.

And as it was revealed last week in Memphis, I don’t anymore breathe a sign of relief when I see a Black cop than when I see a White cop.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by jrochkind1 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #207
dsomers wrote: post #82

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Exactly this. As late as the 2001 I could cross into the US from Canada with as little as my birth certificate, which I often did. That was just a cotton blended paper with tattered edges with some writing, and the crest of my province printed on it. There wasn’t even a photo on it! It was closer to writing, ‘I’m daniel plz let me in’ on a napkin, than it is to my passport of today with its photo, barcode, and RFID c…

> As late as the 2001 I could cross into the US from Canada with as little as my birth certificate, Growing up in Detroit in the 80s (which some people don't realize is right on the border with Canada -- and that you travel south across a bridge to get to Canada! look it up) -- we generally didn't even bring our birth certificate. which may be a testament to our social class -- they could ask for a birth certificate…

(I'm realizing in my memory that not only did you show no paperwork, for the majority of crossings for people they did not deem "suspicious", you didn't even provide your name at all. I guess they could have been recording your license plate, not sure if they were, but there was no record left of the individual people crossing).

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Post by iso1210 »

ramraj07 wrote: post #204
MrPatan wrote: post #53

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Do you have to show your papers when you board a bus?

Yes, you have to now, actually, in most greyhounds in most cities within 100 miles of the US border.

That's so sad in the "land of the free"

Do you have to show photo ID when filling up with gas within 100 miles of the border?

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