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• You are quite lucky that you've never had your grocery cart accidentally hijacked! It has happened to me several times, so nope, no way, I now always keep mine close by.

  May 26, 2023 at 9:57 pmCarolyn

• I had a good friend in law school whose father was a professional conman in the 50's. His dad told him to always keep your shoes polished, because people will trust you. I'm not suggesting using polished shoes to take advantage of people, but it does show that taking care...

  May 26, 2023 at 11:36 amCarl Weinkauf

• I have a similar political story to you -- tending toward the word "liberal" but finding its meaning has shifted to mean something quite illiberal. Today most of my strongly-held political beliefs are related to cryptography, surveillance, privacy and censorship, which are all technical and obscure enough that there aren't...

  May 25, 2023 at 6:06 pmAndrew

• @jeff: Ah, I think I get what you mean by nice-guy-ism now. I actually don't advocate that. I think some perspectives are absolutely terrible, make no mistake. But espousing which views I think are good and terrible in this post would distract from its point, which is a meta-level argument about...

  May 25, 2023 at 4:40 pmDavid Cain

• Thanks for your nice reply. Sorry my comment was so long. It's not appropriate in a forum like this. Also, it was rather critical of a mostly-great post. In fact, this paragraph made it into my lifetime quote collection, and I've already quoted you in my public writing: "Our motivation to...

  May 25, 2023 at 12:44 pmJeff Syrop