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manqueryesterday at 7:37 PM4 repliesview on HN

Swag packages like these are a token of appreciation not a reward.

The front page post in HN here is worth far more than few thousand dollars , don’t think either organization is operating under purely financial transactional nature .

Most people who find a dropped wallet will return it without evaluating the market value of your compromised identity or the contents of the wallet .

Grateful owners may buy you a beer that doesn’t make them cheap , not everything is evaluated in purely money terms, and that is a good thing ?


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r_leeyesterday at 8:26 PM

> The front page post in HN here is worth far more than few thousand dollars , don’t think either organization is operating under purely financial transactional nature .

not always, especially if its just someone independent. iirc there was a guy here not too long ago who started dropping Windows 0days because Microsoft couldn't be assed to process his bug reports

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flaunf221yesterday at 8:18 PM

Wallets usually belong to real people with lives. We can empathize with them. Companies are not people. And they also don't and can't empathize with you.

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sublinearyesterday at 7:52 PM

Thank you for pushing back on one of the top disruptive bad-faith comments we see on HN.

The follow up arguments will be that since billion dollar companies ultimately only care about their bottom line, so should we.

I'm certain most of these comments mean well (to "open eyes" or whatever), but some of them really are on principle and blatant astroturfing.

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