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I might be missing something, but how do these two incredibly-delayed payments help them train now?

They call J.G. Wentworth?

/Worst earworm since 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS


Most of my lunch hours, I take nothing more than a five dollar bill.

A slice of cheese pizza is $2, and a bottle of water is $1. Then I sit in the park and watch life happen in front of me.

Very therapeutic.


The fact that you do not have to pull a card or even your phone could make the transaction faster.

Except they didn't in the real world.

The only place I ever saw these was at Whole Foods, and the store's POS terminals don't let you tap or palm until all items are rung up and there's a total available.

Usually when the cashier is down to the last two items, I have my card already out and hovering over the chip reader. The transaction completes in under two seconds.

Palm scanning is slower than any payment method other than cash or checks.


I think he might be the greatest person at failing up who has ever lived.

Went bankrupt six times and is still hailed by his followers as an economic genius. Few people can pull that off.


He's going for number 7 it seems

An extra century or two of experience will do that!

Adults.

Tracking pixels have become so endemic that HSBC have clearly come to the opinion that if they can’t track when I open their emails, I must not be receiving their emails. So they wrote me a letter to tell me that my emails have been “returned undelivered”

Tracking pixels are the key of thing that my computer filters out. So I wonder if this explains why I get paper statements for my Apple Card.

Each time one comes in the mail, it has a letter with it stating that Goldman Sachs was unable to contact me at the email address on file, which they show as my Apple ID email address. Which works fine for everyone else in the world, including Apple.


The German bank I have an account with solves this by making the statements available online and considering them delivered if the statements were downloaded. I’m assuming this proper way is too expensive for some banks.

Sounds like something straight out of A Prairie Home Companion.

Presumably when it was first pitched internally it was called "Amazon 5-Star", then they realised that meant they basically couldn't sell anything, since nothing popular gets a full 5 stars. So they changed it to "4-Star"

This would not be the first off-by-one error at Amazon.


I take it you know roughly nothing about how the world works?

Even New York City has a county sheriff.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/sheriff-courts/sheriff.page


If by the world you mean America, then yes. One really only hears about sherifs in westerns and florida man videos.

If, by your own admission, you don't know anything about America, why would you post a snarky personal attack like that?

Go rage-post on Reddit. HN is supposed to be better.


Yeah, fair point. Too much rage inducing news lately I guess.

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