• AzureDiamond (unregistered)

    best part is the 500% fall in the movie went from 43k to 38k same as the trump tariffs just faster. the economys pretty bad rn but nowhere close to collapse

  • Hans (unregistered)

    Is that girl saying "🡵" to that guy? The other way around I could imagine some NSFW meaning.

    🡵 = 0x01F975, Wide-headed North East Medium Barb Arrow

  • Tim R (unregistered)

    The -500% is quite scary. Think about how many people had a chance to see and correct that before it was published, and yet none of them had even the most basic understanding of maths.

    I thought the mispronunciation of "Euler" in The Imitation Game was bad but this is probably worse.

  • (nodebb)

    U+1FA75 is "LIGHT BLUE HEART". The user probably doesn't have a font installed for that range of emojis, so the browser fell back to a box with the codepoint.

    https://emojiguide.org/light-blue-heart

  • (nodebb) in reply to Tim R

    I thought the mispronunciation of "Euler" in The Imitation Game was bad but this is probably worse.

    Did they pronounce it "Yooler" or "Oyler"? (As I rather dimly(1) recall it from maths classes at university, it's supposed to be "Oyler"(2), but ...)

    (1) Well, duh, it was nearly forty years ago.

    (2) The pronunciation guide at the beginning of the Unreliable Source's page on Leonhard Euler says that my recollection is correct.

  • Puzzling (unregistered)

    Wouldn't going down by -500% be the same as going up by +500%? That sounds like a good thing. 😜

  • (nodebb)

    Euro was getting stronger after the US basically over a couple of day completely destroyed most of their soft power capabilities, put their world currency status in serious doubt and cannot stop with the only power in the world that can literally economically destroy it because it holds the largest amount of US bonds.

    That said, it ain't that bad to tank the NZ dollars to zero, and I'm not sure how tight NZ is to the US economically compared to the rest of world :-)

  • (nodebb)

    If a stock could fall -500%, it's trade value would literally become negative. Since now we're in a totally imaginary nonsensical world, that means that when buying the stock at a negative price, the exchange should give me money. No problem, I'll just "buy" all of it, and then hold it long term till it becomes positive again!

  • (nodebb) in reply to Ralf

    You got it all wrong, it's an imperial percentage. What does that mean? I don't know, I haven't played Dungeons & Dragons in a while :-)

  • Juli (unregistered)

    The first one is not an error. Zero amount "payments" are used to check the validity of a card. The submitter reports that they had to authenticate with fingerprint which suggest, that also 3D-Secure (Securecode, and other names) was active, to verify that the user has actual control over the card. They likely will not bill every ticket purchase individually, as they likely expect users of public transport to often do multiple trips per day. It saves resources, costs on their side and fees to instead do like a daily or even less frequent summary billing of the card. I highly suspect that this is what is happening here.

  • (nodebb)

    If that payment system is the one I think it is then they pre-auth a 10-cent transaction, then bill the total amount at the end of the day. However that's for individual rides on the bus/ferry/train paid directly via NFC for which there's no separate auth step, if you're buying or topping up a concession ticket and then using that to pay the fare (required for things like transfers, child fares, etc) then it's billed all at once. Certainly if you do it via a ticket machine (card-present) you're asked for the full amount, this may have been a phone-based payment which could work differently.

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