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Crazy idea: he wanted to live in SF. It's a dream for many millennials to live in SF/NYC/Chicago, including me.
by nether 13y ago
Crazy idea: he wanted to live in SF. It's a dream for many millennials to live in SF/NYC/Chicago, including me.
- refurb 13y agoYou'd think his desire to stay out of prison would be stronger than his desire to live in SF.
- dragonwriter 13y agoAlmost every real-world criminal that ends up arrested violates several "you'd think" statements. "You'd think" is often true when "you'd be correct to think" isn't.
- lmkg 13y agoYour wording implies you're already aware of this, but I'll say it anyways: Survivor Bias. The criminals that do all of the obvious smart things are much less likely to get arrested. The ones that do get arrested, are disproportionately the ones that did something not-smart. The the larger the quantity and (not-)quality of their mis-steps, the more likely they are to be the one you read about for being arrested. Living in SF seems like a fairly reasonable mistake--it's simple confidence that you won't be caught.
- Natsu 13y agoCriminals face the same sort of issue DRM makers do: they only need to make one big mistake. Some of their mistakes may go unnoticed for a long period of time, but in the long run, just one mistake is all it takes for everything to come undone.
- MichaelGG 13y agoDRM is fundamentally impossible on client-controlled devices. Being a criminal is not fundamentally impossible, nor is not being caught.
- Natsu 13y agoWhile I agree that perfect DRM is fundamentally impossible, I have no evidence of perfect criminals either.
- malka 13y agowell, since they were not caught, you never heard of them.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThe ones that aren't caught are almost certainly not perfect criminals, either, they're just lucky criminals whose errors happen to have intersected with the gaps in imperfect law enforcement.
- atwebb 13y agoI'm trying to think of a better way to phrase this but: why?
- calinet6 13y agoA better question for you is, why not?
- aspensmonster 13y agoBecause it's expensive.
- recursive 13y agoBecause you might go to jail.
- cookiecaper 13y ago* crowded * dirty * traffic * a great deal of self-important wannabes * _astronomical_ cost of living compared to "less desirable" environs like Denver, Omaha, Salt Lake, Dallas, or other large mid/mountain west localities * family unfriendliness, as the chic "millennial" crowd despises children * bad politics that impact everyday life (gun ownership, etc.) and high tax rates and there are many other reasons to _not_ want to be in one of those hotspots. Surprising as it may seem to some of you, there are cool and interesting people everywhere.
- dragonwriter 13y agoEr, all of those except the last of those reasons you give boil down to symptoms of either: a) Lots of people in general want to live there, and b) Lots of people of a generation and attitude want to live there. (The last actually fits in (b), but for a different attitude than the others.) And the person in question is at least of the generation, and arguably of the attitude referred to in those other than the last, so its a pretty unconvincing list of why you'd think that person wouldn't want to live there.
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