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Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.
Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.
It's odd that in 2017 we are still having this debate. wiki welcomes you to improve the article. In fact that's the whole idea behind the site. It's odd that some users are still missing this use case in its entirety.
Less chance of being bitten by people who seems to think they does the planet a service by rejecting and deleting content.
I recognise this might only be a misunderstanding, I rarely get bitten myself but I have seen enough useful questions and answers being punished on SO and enough Meta discussions telling everyone how great this is to learn that the site is mostly not for me.
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My first thought was that this would be an interesting protocol for calling someone. I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to see if any scam reports are available and then quickly answer if not. But I might start the practice of texting ahead of calling someone unfamiliar with a quick message like “This…
Just read an interesting strategy for dealing with robocalls: answer and immediately mute yourself. They will assume it's a dead line and take you off the list. Or do what I do and answer every unknown call with "911. What's the location of your emergency?"
And "gentlemen's clubs" now typically means strip clubs in modern culture.
This feels almost like SYN/ACK/NACK, but for people. Which means you could DDoS an aristocrat by sending them a lot of visiting cards.
My first thought was that this would be an interesting protocol for calling someone. I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to see if any scam reports are available and then quickly answer if not. But I might start the practice of texting ahead of calling someone unfamiliar with a quick message like “This…
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Just read an interesting strategy for dealing with robocalls: answer and immediately mute yourself. They will assume it's a dead line and take you off the list. Or do what I do and answer every unknown call with "911. What's the location of your emergency?"
That second strategy ought to get you on another, more interesting, list though.
Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.
The article you're looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card It is a more general article on what we now call business cards, and contains a significant amount of information about the use of business cards in Japan and the etiquette involved. OP, on the other hand, is about a specific precursor to the modern business card that only existed in the West.
Out would come this plain white business card, with 2 words printed: "My Card".
He would perform this satire with the most grace and seriousness he could muster.
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My first thought was that this would be an interesting protocol for calling someone. I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to see if any scam reports are available and then quickly answer if not. But I might start the practice of texting ahead of calling someone unfamiliar with a quick message like “This…
I use truecaller. It works well me, but robocalls have never been a major problem for me fo https://www.truecaller.com/
Not the best option considering the app sends them all your contacts.