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They'll sell the kidney or the keyboard back to you for $499?

Well played.

Ahh, but can it run DOOM...?

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Comments like this are the best part HN.

For funsies I shortened https://creepylink.com

And got: https://c1ic.link/account_kPvfG7_download_now.bat

For everyone else who's getting "You’ve read your last free article" like me:

https://archive.is/RltXf

B-M-trouble-yew is another fave

True, but chases involving stolen vehicles (a non-trivial percentage of all chases) means that mailing a fine to the registered owner wouldn't be a universal solution.

This

And I, for one, welcome our new mushroom overlords.

>AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair

Shhh! Don't give Apple any ideas.

Next they'll eliminate the 1400 baud modems and then where will we be?

This. Also, remember that from the consumer standpoint, PayPal was the first ever trusted payment processor that didn't pass your payment account info (bank, CC#, debit card info) along to the vendor. Granted, they passed along your email+shipping address. But the vendor would have had that info anyhow if you were purchasing some physical item from them.

So there's a large swath of the consumer population that views PayPal positively and will skip a purchase if there's no PayPal option.

Linkadelic:

https://archive.is/2y9C3

This might be the most intriguing vaporware since SpinLaunch:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=spinlaunch

This is the enshittification comment I came here for.

Linka-dinka-doo:

https://archive.is/pg09D

Story is from 2015, but here's the readable link anyhow:

https://archive.is/ldZDX

The "Cold Fusion" vibes are strong with this one.