Wingman4l7

Exactly -- there are precious few, if any at all, problems, communicated by a remote person, that are only solved by immediately and unquestioningly transferring a sum of money. Learning about specific scams is a waste of time and you'll always be one step behind. People need to learn how to apply a heuristic.

It's compliance theater. They can claim they technically complied with the requirement to search locally for applicants first.

They absolutely will. Zipline (drone delivery) is already successfully operating with FAA approval, and is actively fulfilling daily deliveries in multiple metro areas. They just announced a partnership with Uber Eats, who, according to a podcast with the Zipline CEO, wanted all of their current and near-future planned capacity.

The current way to make a "finished" clothing product is called "whole garment knitting". Only two companies make machines that can do this; designing the garments is a pain with the current software stack. Most clothing is "cut and sew" -- you make a simple sheet of knitted material and cut and sew a garment out of that sheet. It is wasteful and heavily reliant on cheap labor.

Just like eBay, an Amazon listing for a certain price does not mean the item is actually /selling/ for that price -- especially with badly-coded dynamic re-pricing algorithms hooked into listings these days.

It is indeed trivial to "side-load" ebooks onto an older Kindle; you plug it in via USB and drop the files into, IIRC, the "/documents" directory.

Kindle, for many years and I think even now, does not actually support EPUB, for likely unethical reasons you can probably guess; I believe the Kindle email address method hides a conversion to the AZW / AZW3 format.

What about if the harm is solely limited to people outside of China, because the product was export-only?

On their own "About Us" page: "Chime® is a financial technology company, not a bank." eyeroll

These leeches want all the profits of banking and none of the customer service and regulatory obligations.

New rule: if we ask 100 of your customers if they think you're a bank, and the majority say yes, congratulations, you're now a bank under law, because you sure as hell are pretending to be one.

Apple? The company that has built its entire brand and product lines around "we know what's best for you and if you don't like the way we've done it, you're wrong"?

In the US, IIRC they have a trusted person sort the bills by denomination for them -- like a friend or a bank teller -- and then they fold them into different orientations so they know what they've handed to a checkout clerk. No way for them to prevent being shortchanged, unfortunately.

That's a big assumption that this patent, a technology quite relevant to a massive media company, was filed only for future patent troll purposes. Plenty of seriously-intentioned ideas never materialize for a multitude of reasons.

The point is that the idea is now out in the wild and cannot be unseen, and however stupid or morally bankrupt it is, someone in the past did (and someone in the future will) think it was a good idea. And if and when it finally gets implemented for real, we all suffer.

The soda can validation 4chan meme isn't just a dumb joke. It's a warning.

This does appear to break your "streak" of correct answers, though.