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venmo is just a payment ap that is fairly easy to use without fees and has wide adoption i've used it for years without issue
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Nov 20, 2018 00:32
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got any sevens posted:whats the deal with venmo? is it safe? i just downloaded it because someone wanted me to try it and on the front page its showing who is paying who. is the point that it's more public, like buttcoin ledger (but not with the extra-stupid mining)? I was confused as hell because I thought it was just a payment app but apparently theres some social bullshit too 
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Nov 20, 2018 01:05
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iirc venmo has a social media aspect to it someone took the gambit of "i bet you couldn't make a worse version of paypal"
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Nov 20, 2018 01:13
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:I was confused as hell because I thought it was just a payment app but apparently theres some social bullshit too
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Nov 20, 2018 01:26
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Boeing adds "safety feature" which overrides manual flight and forces planes to nosedive towards the ground, makes it nearly impossible to disable, doesn't tell the FAA or airlines or pilots about this feature, kills 189 people in a plane crash https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/boeing-crapification-lion-air-crash.html
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Nov 20, 2018 01:40
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Algund Eenboom posted:Boeing adds "safety feature" which overrides manual flight and forces planes to nosedive towards the ground, makes it nearly impossible to disable, doesn't tell the FAA or airlines or pilots about this feature, kills 189 people in a plane crash wait how is an override that makes the plane fly into the ground a safety feature
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Nov 20, 2018 02:02
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https://twitter.com/StephLauren/status/1064642792654278657
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Nov 20, 2018 02:04
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not sure if thats an improvement from cartoon mark zuckerberg livestreaming a tour of hurricane-destroyed puerto rico
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Nov 20, 2018 02:06
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Don't make jokes on Venmo https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/76r2qx/tifu_by_making_a_north_korea_joke_to_pay_my_power/ quote:TL;DR: Paid power bill with subject "North Korea is best Korea." Got flagged per Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) guidelines. Still haven't been able to pay the power bill...
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Nov 20, 2018 02:11
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mass shootings so ubiquitous i see tangential references to mass shootings and 
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Nov 20, 2018 02:19
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got any sevens posted:whats the deal with venmo? is it safe? i just downloaded it because someone wanted me to try it and on the front page its showing who is paying who. is the point that it's more public, like buttcoin ledger (but not with the extra-stupid mining)? Venmo is fine for transactions with your friends but don’t use it for commercial stuff
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Nov 20, 2018 02:25
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bawfuls posted:venmo is just a payment ap that is fairly easy to use without fees and has wide adoption why does the company run it for free seems suspicious
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Nov 20, 2018 02:27
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Algund Eenboom posted:Boeing adds "safety feature" which overrides manual flight and forces planes to nosedive towards the ground, makes it nearly impossible to disable, doesn't tell the FAA or airlines or pilots about this feature, kills 189 people in a plane crash Its cool watching how this story changes during the game of telephone between journalist and journalist.
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Nov 20, 2018 02:35
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got any sevens posted:why does the company run it for free you pay a small fee for instant transfers to your bank account so I guess they make money off that
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Nov 20, 2018 02:41
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got any sevens posted:why does the company run it for free Cnidaria posted:you pay a small fee for instant transfers to your bank account so I guess they make money off that The fee for instant transfers is a relatively new feature.
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Nov 20, 2018 05:42
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paypal owns venmo which makes it even more dystopian
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Nov 20, 2018 06:04
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Shear Modulus posted:wait how is an override that makes the plane fly into the ground a safety feature There was a plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil because one of the pilots kept pulling up even though they were in a stall. quote:The engines always responded to commands and were developing in excess of 100 percent N1 when the flight ended. First officer Robert responded with: "We've lost all control of the aeroplane, we don’t understand anything, we’ve tried everything" and then: "Climb climb climb climb". When Bonin replied: "But I’ve been at maximum nose-up for a while!" captain Dubois realized Bonin was causing the stall, causing him to shout: "No no no, don’t climb!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
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Nov 20, 2018 06:46
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wait what do they not teach pilots how to fly anymore
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Nov 20, 2018 06:47
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Shear Modulus posted:wait how is an override that makes the plane fly into the ground a safety feature What it's SUPPOSED to do is build up enough speed to pull out of a stall, even if the pilots are morons who don't actually know how to fly, i guess.
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Nov 20, 2018 06:52
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Shear Modulus posted:wait what do they not teach pilots how to fly anymore Hundreds of hours of autopilot makes them rusty as gently caress so when something does happen they forget how to fly. Suggested solutions in some aaticle I read include having autopilots randomly turn off, to keep people on their toes. Is this cyberpunk?
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Nov 20, 2018 06:52
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Shear Modulus posted:wait what do they not teach pilots how to fly anymore It was the middle of the night (couldn't see the ocean and get an idea of horizon) and they thought the computer readouts were wrong so they kept fighting the plane almost all the way down.
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Nov 20, 2018 06:54
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Shear Modulus posted:wait what do they not teach pilots how to fly anymore the co-pilot was inexperienced and the avionics system had a confused warning. it was shouting a 'pull up' warning the whole time because of the low altitude, so our perky dumbass co-pilot who wasn't thinking about how the plane moves and was flying like a robot kept pulling up. you know how people like, brake around turns and end up sliding off the road? same kind of situation
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Nov 20, 2018 06:59
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Larry Parrish posted:the co-pilot was inexperienced and the avionics system had a confused warning. it was shouting a 'pull up' warning the whole time because of the low altitude, so our perky dumbass co-pilot who wasn't thinking about how the plane moves and was flying like a robot kept pulling up. you know how people like, brake around turns and end up sliding off the road? same kind of situation i only did my single engine VFR solo, and even *I* know to read the instruments when the stall horn goes off and you're all turned around that is an ASTONISHINGLY large fuckup for a commercial pilot.
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Nov 20, 2018 07:01
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like i appreciate the attempt at metaphor but any rear end in a top hat who answers a 50 question test and drives around the corner a few times without rear-ending someone can get a driver's license. after the 10,000 hours of practice needed to certify that's not like braking around a corner, its like forgetting to unzip your fly and pissing your pants in front of the urinal Willie Tomg has issued a correction as of 07:41 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Nov 20, 2018 07:07
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ted hitler posted:paypal owns venmo which makes it even more dystopian does Venmo have a barrier of entry that PayPal doesn't? I can only imagine PayPal continues supporting Venmo as a product to entice the class of folks with X type of bank account while they continue to charge tons of fees to anyone using PayPal who doesn't qualify for Venmo.
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Nov 20, 2018 07:38
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tokyo drifting my plane to own boeing
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Nov 20, 2018 07:54
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yeah i was more wondering what kind of pilot is going to fly at max incline for a while and be like why am i stalling???
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Nov 20, 2018 08:20
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Three pilots
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Nov 20, 2018 08:42
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technically only 2, the third one came back from his break and realized what they were doing but it was too late
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Nov 20, 2018 09:36
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I'll just repost this from the OSHA thread https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash, very good article.
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Nov 20, 2018 10:04
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got any sevens posted:why does the company run it for free venmo was designed to target millennials as a convenient, free payment app that slowly adds social media features... but they've got ulterior motives for the long-term (keep reading) from the beginning venmo has acted more like a marketing research team hiding behind a payment app they've been running data analytics on the way users behave socially in response to purchases, how purchasing habits change in response to social events, stuff like that they've learned millennials don't like ads, and they've learned that millennials are more likely to buy products from places that their friends buy from, they've been learning how social media affects purchases venmo has been adding more social media features, that transformation has been slow but deliberate quote:Richard Crone, who runs a payments focused firm called Crone Consulting, said “You walk into any retailer, any restaurant, any service provider - what do they want you to do? Like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter.” Partnering with Venmo, he said, is like partnering with a credit-card processor, “but with much more upside, because the retailers spend far more trying to get you to like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter and all these other things that they could just get as a byproduct of the payment.” People can see where their friends have been and what they’ve been buying. It turns the user, and people’s friends, into advertisements for businesses, among a highly desirable target demographic. they also intend to use their slowly-growing social media features to promote the P2P payment system itself but there's more when venmo (or any P2P) purchases are made, the only data a bank sees is that there was a venmo purchase for some amount this is different from how it works for traditional payment systems, where there's data about purchases for acquiring banks, card brands, and payment processors paypal *is* a payment processor, so they're currently in that purchase data loop when people make payments through paypal what venmo (and ergo paypal) is trying to do is cut banks and the card brands out of the data loop so they can keep all it for themselves data is valuable. they've been playing the long-game the whole time, their ultimate goal is to challenge and/or supplant the payment card industry i don't know if it's dytopian or just capitalism Homocow has issued a correction as of 10:18 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Nov 20, 2018 10:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKdJ6DnPhzk
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Nov 20, 2018 10:18
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Willie Tomg posted:like i appreciate the attempt at metaphor but any rear end in a top hat who answers a 50 question test and drives around the corner a few times without rear-ending someone can get a driver's license. An article I read suggested that the flight hours newer pilots are getting simply aren't "quality" flying time. The problem is that even though new pilots have thousands of hours under their belt those hours have been flown in a simulator under ideal conditions, and then on auto-pilot planes under similar conditions. So you have this new generation of pilots coming up who can't handle the stress when things go bad fast
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Nov 20, 2018 10:45
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unironically bring back the old WW2 training method where they just throw you in a civilian prop plane that has a supercharged P-51 engines. there's even a mostly-NASA operated training airframe which really is basically two in-line seats strapped to afterburning fighter jet engines. for heavy aircraft pilots they can have a C-130 i guess
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Nov 20, 2018 11:43
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If you aren’t ready to hop in a C‐130 carry out Operation Credible Sport at any time, you shouldn’t be flying.
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Nov 20, 2018 13:10
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https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/1064522819743019008
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Nov 20, 2018 13:46
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got any sevens posted:whats the deal with venmo? is it safe? i just downloaded it because someone wanted me to try it and on the front page its showing who is paying who. is the point that it's more public, like buttcoin ledger (but not with the extra-stupid mining)? yeah it's safe, just set ur visibility to private....i don't have a clue why they have a dash showing all the transactions ur contacts are making and yes it's weird af and made me question using it
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Nov 20, 2018 14:15
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Lmao if you don't set all of your transactions to private and assign the memo as a string of random emoji
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Nov 20, 2018 14:44
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Is this the thread for our pessimistic predictions of the near future cuz I've got a bunch in this vein.
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Nov 20, 2018 15:02
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is this the thread for our pessimistic predictions of the near future cuz I've got a bunch in this vein. just post
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Nov 20, 2018 16:03
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