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

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Post by bosie »

Reason077 wrote: post #185
Skye wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the UK the details needed to transfer money into an account are on most bank cards (Account Number and Sort Code), so that's enough identifying info. That would also mean someone can send you money if your card is blocked or cancelled. Account number and sort code don't change when you get a new card. Also, "Faster Payments" is the name of the normal system to transfer money between accounts in the UK. It doesn't…

I'm curious about this. I've always banked with NatWest so I'm only really familiar with their cards, but my bank account number is definitely not printed on the card (the sort code is). Do some other UK banks really print the account numbers on their cards? Or is there some way to send a Faster payment to a debit card number?

Just checked my Halifax Visa Debit card... Contains my name, visa card number, sort code and bank account number.

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

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Post by Judgmentality »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #176
TulliusCicero wrote: post #169

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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

> anterior motive

I think you mean ulterior motive :)

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

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Post by dang »

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…

There's a softer version of this intuition: a guy who works for Transferwise would be more likely to write a blog post about something like this when it happened to him.

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

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Post by ghaff »

lonelappde wrote: post #179
patio11 wrote: post #118

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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.

No, actually Content Marketing is not planting fake stories on social media.

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

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Post by magduf »

B-Con wrote: post #184
emilfihlman wrote: post #166

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Wtf? It _is_ a dark pattern. It prevents you from _knowing_ someone has messaged you. In 99,9% of cases you want to know someone sent you a message.

In 99.9% of cases you don't. It's mostly spam. Facebook is a friend platform, not a stranger platform. Don't use it to message strangers, it's very explicitly not what the platform is designed for.

If email worked this way, the whole thing would collapse, because much of the time, you really do want to receive messages from new people. How would contacting a business work if their email system auto-rejected all messages from people not already known?

Sure, spam is a big problem, and that's why we've invented spam filters. Google was able to do that and it works well. Granted, Google is a huge company with lots of resources, but so is Facebook, so why can't they be bothered?

>Don't use it to message strangers, it's very explicitly not what the platform is designed for.

Wrong, it's designed to help people get in contact with each other. This doesn't mean everyone wants to be friends first before exchanging some messages.

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

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Post by j2bax »

shaneprrlt wrote: post #56
SI_Rob wrote: post #51

Every so often my pessimistic tendencies get a healthy slap across the face by the actions of someone who took the high road when they easily could have chosen otherwise. It's a couple summers ago, at the height of the summer tourist season and I'm cycling up 4th ave SW in DC. Somewhere between the NASA HQ and the National Mall my camera bag - packed full with a fairly new DSLR, a few lenses, and a secondary cell pho…

> In one instant, some unsung karmic superhero single-handedly erased the work of several hundred asshole double parking jobs. Perfect balance. Yin and yang.

Two karmic superhero's. The guy that found it, and the concierge!
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