Re:This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air
by megablast on Saturday April 05, 2014 @09:56PM
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The odds of getting your stuff stolen are very low. But having your stuff stolen is so bad, that it is worth doing stuff to avoid it, like taking it with you to the bathroom.
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That's not necessarily true. There is a cost to lowering the risk of theft. In this case, it's mostly the time it takes to pack up the stuff, and potentially losing your seat in the coffee shop. There must be point where it's not worth lowering the risk of theft. It would be highly dependent on the cost of your possessions, the likelihood of theft, and the cost of risk-lowering activity over one's lifetime.