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Most HN users could figure out how to safely blow up ATMs, few could figure out the other thing.
by ryanlol 5y ago
Most HN users could figure out how to safely blow up ATMs, few could figure out the other thing.
- Beldin 5y agoI doubt it. I think most HN users would be above-average successful at white-collar crimes, especially if those involve technology. I see no reason for any correlation between HN readership and aptitude for blue-collar crimes.
- aaron695 5y agoLol, you walk into a welding shop buy oxygen and acetylene and tubes. Go to a hobby store and by a model rocket fuse. Wake up at 3:00am stick them into the ATM and get money. A lot of aptitude needed isn't there? You can't be a coward though. Most HN readership can't do either. Unless you call pretending they use AI or AR or chatbots or big data as white collar crime.
- ryanlol 5y agoAnyone capable of stopping to think for 5 minutes will be above average aptitude for blue-collar crimes.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoI think if all of HN tried it, a third would be in jail, and a third would need to be scraped off the pavement with a mop. Maybe sucess chance is higher than with crypto, but the faiure is much worse
- ryanlol 5y agoI would bet that the amount of people that need to be scraped off the pavement would be much less than a third. The kind of explosives you would normally use for this are not difficult to handle or deploy, anyone with access to google can figure it out. I think HN users in general would be much more inclined to do at least a little bit of research, unlike most blue collar criminals.