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chao- • today at 4:17 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Even more consequential and terrifying is to check how quickly and easily you can rake or bump the lock on your home door (only attempt if you know that you're doing, so as to avoid damaging it). Tends to be far easier than accessing car. It may also run counter to expectations: The nicest (and second most expensive) place I have lived at had the worst locks.

Makes you reflect on how, most of the time we rely on a baseline trust placed in most of the people around us.


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briansm • today at 5:49 AM

Makes me think of Max Fisher's latest video where he makes the case that the 'domestication' that ancient human-to-human trust provided is what allowed us to genetically adapt to spend less energy on survival and more on brain-power.

Literally all of civilization is built on the back of that, and if it erodes then We're doomed.

JumpCrisscross • today at 6:03 AM

> nicest (and second most expensive) place I have lived at had the worst locks

Did it have an alarm system?