I just lost my wallet on the way home from work • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by thedaemon » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:02 PM UTC

andreygrehov wrote: post #54

journalctl wrote: post #12

This is neat! I once found someone’s debit card on the street (in the US). It had a small face shot on it, so I found them on Facebook and sent them a message. Of course, Facebook had already started doing the “messages from non-friends are really hard to find lol” UI dark pattern, so like two years later the woman responds thanking me, but also saying she just canceled the card. Which is what I would’ve done, but I…

A few years ago, I found a wallet at a New York subway station. The wallet had some documents (including driver's license), weed and a note saying "You are fool". I found the guy on Facebook. He didn't know anything about the note, but we figured it was written by someone who found the wallet before me. He or she took all the cash and left a note, lol. I threw out weed and mailed the owner all of his documents. He wa…

So you too stole from him, as you stated you "threw out weed". That's not very nice.

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

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Post by crimsonalucard » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:02 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #192

crimsonalucard wrote: post #57

Only in rich countries.

Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263246 and marked it off-topic.

Can you tell me how this constitutes as flame-bait? From my anecdotal experience I feel my comment is true. The comments in response to mine offer enlightening information to the contrary. I didn't post it to flame anything only to generate interesting responses.

I'll try to stop doing what I think you want but note that from my perspective, I just have a different perspective on certain things and I find it only worth saying things that are different or controversial rather than saying things everybody already agrees with. It's not necessarily purposely flame-baiting though differing opinions do tend to look that way as a side effect. I will admit I use sarcasm to illustrate some points, but I can stop that. Just note, that I'm not purposely flame-baiting anyone. I am literally just saying an opinion that I have that many people disagree with.

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

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Post by CWuestefeld » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:04 PM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #105

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?

You don’t have such laws in Washington DC? Funny you should ask. A few years back my wife and I were stuck in Reagan (an airport in D. C.) for a super-long layover. As I'm watching my first ever episode of Archer , I notice the family a row over gets up and walks down the concourse, leaving their bags. Now, I've heard a bit of their conversations as I've sat there, and I gather they're American and probably self-cent…

I was in Shanghai Pudong airport waiting in line to check in. There was a small suitcase sitting there unattended for quite a while. What was funny is that all of us in lined seemed to be very studiously ignoring it, looking away. I think we all knew that if anybody said anything, the security theater would start and we'd never get on our flights.

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

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Post by blackflame » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:04 PM UTC

crooked-v wrote: post #23

mav3rick wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Dark pattern". Do you know how many unsolicited messages women receive on Facebook ?

This is a legitimate concern, but the way to combat isn't to silently hide messages behind unfamiliar UI. For a contrast, consider email junk filters, which generally serve a similar purpose but are accessible enough to easily scan through in case of legitimate messages being lost.

I've come across a type of scam where someone on a dating app like tinder will pose as an attractive person with the intention of trying to convince the victim to engage in sexually explicit texts or snapchats. Once they do, the scammer then looks up the friends of friends of the facebook profile associated with the number and then tries to blackmail the victim with threats of sending embarrassing texts to their closest friends. There are now TV commercials warning about it too. The best thing you can do is beg the scammer to post the texts, it really confuses the hell out of them and thanks to this facebook feature, the threat is greatly minimized.

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

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Post by magduf » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

bradlys wrote: post #101

djrogers wrote: post #82

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> 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.

> 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. But they sure do like camping out all the time to give people speeding and parking tickets. Priorities!

Why should the OPD bother chasing down purse thieves? How are they going to make money for the city by doing that, when they can go after people for speeding and parking violations instead and make lots of money?

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

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Post by consp » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

This is very nice use of the (now) mandatory message space for SEPA transfers!

Ah, this reminds me from the days when Dutch postbank transfers were instantaneous if not send to another bank. A friend and I did a chat with the short messages you could send. We even got a printout of all the 1 ct messages as that was still a thing back then.

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

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Post by wolco » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

Nition wrote: post #104

wolco wrote: post #100

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Over the air has the newest stuff. Streaming is for yesterday's hit. Uber exists because taxis suck. Cheques are safer and more portable than give me your bank account because you choose where to deposit. Paypal is for websites no stores accept it and doesn't replace a cheque

> Cheques are safer and more portable than give me your bank account because you choose where to deposit. Maybe it's different in the US, but I have a different account number for each of my bank accounts. So I can still choose where I want to deposit someone's money when I give them my account number, by choosing which account number I give to them. And no-one has to go to a bank.

That's true you can give out different account numbers. You can't change that once you give it out though a cheque allows you to decide at the very last moment.

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

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Post by magduf » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:06 PM UTC

droithomme wrote: post #149

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…

> I wish OPD had taken an interest in the theft Been there, in a different city, a few times. Police are somehow in collusion with the crime syndicate. Don't trust police. Ever. All police are corrupt and can not be trusted. Are there exceptions? Only to the extent they don't actively commit crimes but stay silent and refuse to go against their criminal "brothers in blue". Which makes them complicit as well. As I jus…

You mean "American police". Don't lump all police worldwide in with them.

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

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Post by MildlySerious » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:07 PM UTC

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…

It's not noteworthy all of itself, things get unproportional amounts of attention all the time on the internet, but I find it interesting that this story then ended up on the very top of HN

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

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Post by ratsimihah » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:08 PM UTC

epx wrote: post #122

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…

Sometimes it happens, and sometimes not. I lost my wallet 4 times in total, 3 in Brazil (which is $HOME), 1 in Germany. Got it back 3 out of 4 times. Guess where.

Twice in Germany and once in Dubai?