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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

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1503 points participant3 | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 17:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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GPerson ◴[03 Apr 25 20:40 UTC] No.43575114[source]▶
I just think it’s stealing, and honestly not that cool once you’ve seen it once or twice, and given the ramifications for humanity.
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shadowgovt ◴[03 Apr 25 20:45 UTC] No.43575162[source]▶
I know of no other type of theft that results in more of something existing in the world. Stealing deprives someone of something; copying data (from training an AI all the way to pedestrian "YoU wOuLdN'T DoWnLoAd a cAr" early-aughts file-sharing) decreases scarcity, it doesn't increase it.
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Velorivox ◴[03 Apr 25 20:58 UTC] No.43575322[source]▶
Identity theft...more of you exist!
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1. shadowgovt ◴[03 Apr 25 21:26 UTC] No.43575651[source]▶
Identity theft is the greatest con merchants ever pulled on the public. Turning the responsibility around from "A merchant got scammed because their KYC policy was too thin, because they make more money if they do more business with fewer verifications (until someone comes along and cheats them)" to "when they do get scammed, maybe it can be the fault of the person who was impersonated instead of the scammer" was some brilliant sleight-of-hand.

It isn't your responsibility if a bank you've never set foot in gave a bunch of money to someone who isn't you and said they were you... And it never should have been. The moment companies started trying to put that into credit ratings, they should have been barred for discriminatory practices against the unlucky.