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> Reducing the cost of assassination to ~$0 is quite another. It is reducing the cost of developing an assassination plan from ~$0 to ~$0. The cost of actually
by creato 3y ago
> Reducing the cost of assassination to ~$0 is quite another.
It is reducing the cost of developing an assassination plan from ~$0 to ~$0. The cost of actually executing the plan itself is not affected.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 3y agoSee here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38470768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38470768
- SilasX 3y agoGood planning necessarily reduces the cost of something relative to the unplanned or poorly planned version. If it identifies a non-obvious means of assassination that is surprisingly easy, then it has done something "close enough" to reducing the cost to $0.