I suspect something like this may already be in place.

Yeah, but it stopped pretty soon stores figured out that they could flood you with advertisements over Bluetooth. In some places it was bad enough that I had to turn off Bluetooth.

How did this play out? Were the ads from an app from the store that you had installed? Or did they spam you over SMS because they associated your bluetooth info with an account you have with the store, or contact info they bought from a third party?

> Were the ads from an app from the store that you had installed?

This is my main concern over installing apps in general but specifically store apps. I've noticed that grocery stores are moving past existing loyalty cards and want you to use their apps for exclusively available digital coupons. The prices I'm seeing are very compelling and are on top of existing loyalty card discounts, and I could see lots of people using the app because of it. The assumed amount of abuse keeps me from lemminging my way through the store.

Kroger here has done that with their app. The loyalty card/phone number still works for many of the specials, but the "digital deals" thing by using the app and scanning a QR code on the price sticker gives BIGGER discounts. Its not the most convenient way to shop, but I am willing to save 15-20% more usually.

Neither. They used to discover your device and then send a Bluetooth push. "Would you like to receive a file from …"

It was usually an image, movie, or audio file.

Wow that is wild. Thanks for explaining.

I've never seen a prompt like that on my phone and would not have guessed this.

As someone explained it below in this thread, walk into a mall with Bluetooth turned on and phone starts chiming with multiple "... wants to send you a media/audio/image etc." Not just ads, some bad actors would try to infect the phone with malware. Luckily never happened to me, but I heard from my acquaintances.

The way I understood why it’s beneficial to switch your choice after the host opens a door showing you a goat is as below

Assume that door 1 has a goat , door 2 has a car and door 3 has a goat behind it. There are 3 trials possible in the Monty Hall scenario

Trial 1 Contestant chose door 1(which is a goat). Host opens door 3(because he has to) and asks if contestant would like to switch. If he switches, then he wins the !

Trial 2 Contestant chooses door 2, host can open door 1 or 3 doesn’t matter. Host asks contestant if he’d like to switch and if he does then he loses.

Trial 3 Contestant chooses door 3(which has a goat). Host opens door 1(he has to) and asks if contestant would like to switch to door 2. Contestant switches to door 2 and wins a cat!

So 2/3 times contestant wins when switching his/her original choice.

I see this every time I connect to my local library Wifi or Costco. I thought Captive was the name of the company providing this service. TIL.

See! To people complaining about this being on the front page - https://xkcd.com/1053/

Thanks for sharing this! I suspect that the salary listed for certified petitions may be capturing the upper end of the range of salary provided in the LCA for the job/position rather than the actual salary.

True, but does not help in this case with vintage parts.

Please engage sarcasm-awareness mode.

Neither humans nor LLMs are currently equipped with separate sarcasm-awareness modes so telling someone to engage theirs can only be…ohh

that's so beyond obviously a sarcastic remark. In that regard I'd consider a vast majority of the humans totally capable of detecting dead pan sarcasm both in spoken and written speech.

Isn’t there a well known internet adage that speaks to this?

Do you remember what it is?

Cunningham's law

Cunningham himself even claims it was a misquote, and that he never suggested such a thing.

“Shouting incorrect directions in Ironforge” predates Cunningham by several years in any case.

Noted.

I believe the OP was attempting humour.

Yes. Pitfall of not reading the entire comment before responding.

Many prefer to be tipped in cash.

"Prefer".

I have read that, if you tip with a card, the business gets it, and they may give it to the staff, and they may not. But if you tip by leaving cash on the table, the staff for sure gets it, and the business can't stiff them. So, yeah, the staff probably prefers it.

The staff can also not report it for income tax, so of course they prefer it

I pay my barber in cash, because that's the only payment he accepts.

> Many prefer to be tipped in cash.

Tipping is about the only time I need cash. Outside of restaurants, most people I need to tip do not have an easy way to receive digital payments.

The last time CNN covered an inane reality show star he became president, so maybe they're prepping us for a fun 2028.

Since it’s Halloween I guess we had to have a terrifying post somewhere.

If you have cash, it may be a good idea to buy in this small downturn. Though I expect there will be more buying opportunities in the coming year.

It’s not uncommon. Orkut back in the day was wildly popular in Latin America and India. WhatsApp is the same. I think users in NA have a lot of high quality options as against those in Asia and LatAm who don’t have much reliable options other than ones developed in NA.

You can get an android phone for about one tenth of what a new iPhone costs. That’s why android dominates lower income markets. Apple decided they just don’t want to be there.