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Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by sjf »

djrogers wrote: post #82
es-hn wrote: post #72

Coincidentally, I was able to return four peoples' IDs and other cards just this afternoon. Yesterday I was walking in East Oakland and found a pile of credit cards, debit cards, and IDs. Oakland Police Department wouldn't take them so I brought them home and started googling names and addresses. Of the four IDs I found three belonged to adults; the third was a state ID for a minor related to one of the adults. I was…

> wish OPD had taken an interest in the theft Sadly, in California most theft is merely a misdemeanor, and busy PDs do not have time to chase down criminals to give them a ticket.

I've reported felony theft twice in Oakland and never even got a response from OPD.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by bpsh »

floatrock wrote: post #52

I hate it when my cynicism alarm goes off, but this feel-good tweet about hacking payment transfers for good is written by a guy who's twitter bio says he's a PM at Transferwise ("We’re building the best way to move money around the world.") All the replies are people contrasting shitty experiences they've had with their own wallets and money transfer services. His top pinned tweet is: > Reasons to work at @TransferW…

Just want to chime in to tell any prospective new Transferwise customer that my experience with the company has been dreadful. They can for no reason deactivate your account with funds still remaining. That’s not the problem though, it is that their appeals teams takes over 2 weeks to respond per message. Yep, waited 3 weeks to get an answer for deactivation. Another 3 weeks to convince them it was an error. Now it has been a month since I sent in my supporting documents and no reply yet. Think I might have to file a formal complaint at this point.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by Sarahz92 »

feel like a large part of where we are in the world now is because in 2015 or so, YouTube mindlessly and singlehandedly funneled millions of apolitical young male gamers into gamergate extremism. It took forever for YouTube to stop giving me personal recommendations for various alt-right content no how many times I told it I wasn't interested.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by floatrock »

timcameron wrote: post #90
floatrock wrote: post #52

I hate it when my cynicism alarm goes off, but this feel-good tweet about hacking payment transfers for good is written by a guy who's twitter bio says he's a PM at Transferwise ("We’re building the best way to move money around the world.") All the replies are people contrasting shitty experiences they've had with their own wallets and money transfer services. His top pinned tweet is: > Reasons to work at @TransferW…

Hi, I’m the guy who lost his wallet! I agree it’s a convenient overlap and understand your cynicism but I assure you that it’s genuine. I can even provide you with the receipt from me riding a jump bike around for an hour looking for my wallet! :) EDIT: spelling + I did pin the tweet about transferwise after it blew up, and I also changed my bio to share my small side project: Podmast.com - check it out :)

Thanks for dropping in. Sorry if that actually happened to you. The sad thing is when much of tech is dedicated to churning attention capital into financial capital in an ever-more-clever cat-and-mouse game, one stops being able to trust anything that grabs one's attention. Or, at least every social interaction starts to feel purely transactional. It's a shitty social dystopia we're building for ourselves.

Whichever way your story went, thanks for the neat tale of what can be done with bank transfers! Glad it worked out.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #169
patio11 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it is worth, I saw this story and thought "Oh, I love this; creative use of metadata in the payments system", principally because I am professionally involved with payments. All the "coincidences" here are explainable by "people who geek out on X will tend to see a lot more X in their daily lives than civilians and will become focal points for other people who geek out on X, who see a lot more X in their dai…

Reflexive cynicism is a simple, easy way of asserting intellectual superiority over others without directly insulting them. Super common in internet comments, including, arguably, this one. It's vastly less complicated to just assume and assert that everything is bullshit everywhere, all the time, than to actually try to discern where cynicism and optimism are each warranted.

>Reflexive cynicism is a simple, easy way of asserting intellectual superiority over others without directly insulting them. Super common in internet comments, including, arguably, this one.

Or maybe it's a natural adaptation to a world where almost everybody seems to have some ulterior motive.

Edit: a word

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by fl0wenol »

djrogers wrote: post #79
alexis_fr wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it actually legal? In France, a bag in a public place is deemed to be a bomb and the military has to come, secure the area and destroy it. Happens on a routine basis, not even worth the newspapers. You don’t have such laws in Washington DC?

About the only place that would happen in the US (a bag being destroyed for being forgotten) is an airport. There may be a handful of other places with ‘unattended baggage’ policies, but there is definitely nothing illegal about dropping your bag.

Don't forget metros/subways. You see a lot of luggage pass through without inspection (unlike airports or stadiums) but the potential for a terrorist attack is real and they've been used for exactly this. So transit police in US respond very quickly to unattended packages or luggage and treat them as dangerous by default. (https://wjla.com/news/crime/suspicious-packages-in-d-c-unpac...)

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by tialaramex »

chrisweekly wrote: post #128
chrisseaton wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You bank account information is written on your bank cards, which are in your wallet.

Not always! My debit card # is not the same as the checking account # with which it's associated.

That makes sense, the debit card will be EMV compatible so it'll need a number that's about 16 digits long, because that number needs to be unique compared to all the world's payment cards.

However most such (debit) cards in the UK have the associated account number and "sort code" in smaller type on them too. Certainly all the ones I've ever had are like this.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by lonelappde »

patio11 wrote: post #118
floatrock wrote: post #52

I hate it when my cynicism alarm goes off, but this feel-good tweet about hacking payment transfers for good is written by a guy who's twitter bio says he's a PM at Transferwise ("We’re building the best way to move money around the world.") All the replies are people contrasting shitty experiences they've had with their own wallets and money transfer services. His top pinned tweet is: > Reasons to work at @TransferW…

For what it is worth, I saw this story and thought "Oh, I love this; creative use of metadata in the payments system", principally because I am professionally involved with payments. All the "coincidences" here are explainable by "people who geek out on X will tend to see a lot more X in their daily lives than civilians and will become focal points for other people who geek out on X, who see a lot more X in their dai…

It's called content Marketing and it's quite commonly seen here.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by lolc »

einpoklum wrote: post #18

Life lesson: Keep a note with your email address in your wallet - clearly marked "wallet owner's email". Paranoid version of the life lesson: Keep a note with an anonymized email address, with forwarding set up for the message to go to your actual mailbox, in your wallet.

I stick my email-address on all valuables I could conceivably lose. Just last month the police sent me a message about a camera found in the road with my address on it. I'd been wondering for weeks where I misplaced it. It must have fallen off when I passed there with my bicycle.

The poor thing must have seen at least one bout of rain and a lot of sun judging by the ablated jacket. And it still works perfectly!

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