Anyone remember when ATMs were free?
Still are with USAA and Simple, if I remember right.
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#122Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.
I knew a gynecologist named Dr. Hole. To be fair there are at least three ironic specialties he could have gone into.
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#123Anyone remember when ATMs were free?
EU bank cards will mostly allow free withdrawals across Europe (with some strange exceptions). Some countries like Belgium have fully prohibited national banks from charging customers of rival banks. It's not a technical/financial issue, it's a policy choice...
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...
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#124It's not 2000's anymore. Nobody falls for the "free" as in free while we increase our user base anymore.
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#126I used to like buying with Google Checkout back in the day. And does anyone remember Froogle? They used to have free product listings, and then they started charging. One of the reasons I heard for that change was that they were getting a lot of spam. I guess by partnering with Shopify they can let someone else worry about that, but likely they'll have a counterfeit problem if this gets any traction.
I never liked google checkout but I did use their product search many times over the years
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#127> These changes are about creating a monopoly and profiting from it later
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#128Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.
The COO of Starbucks has the last name Brewer
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#129Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.
The Matrix is real.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I don't. How long ago was that? I hear that credit unions don't charge for other credit unions ATMs.
In the 1980s or so, when they first appeared (I'm old). They were free for quite a while. Folks figured that it was like your local heroin dealer: first one's free. We knew that it would just be a matter of time before ATM fees started showing up. At first, they weren't bad, but now, it can cost you five bucks to pull out a sawbuck.
Why would they be free? Before the ATM we had to go to the bank Friday afternoon or Saturday morning (9-12 only) to get money after pay day. If you couldn't wait in the big-ass line, or if you just had something else to do, then you just didn't have any money! It was ridiculous! The ATM brought revolutionary convenience. You could get twenty bucks at 11pm if you wanted to.