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one thing i really find funny is that banks have a "bill pay service" where they figure out for you how to transfer money to your power company, the sewer district etc...

Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

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Aug 2

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So the same problem exists for internal payments too?!

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yes if you come from the european system this makes utterly no sense

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the simplest thing is often to write a paper check, e.g. to pay a contacter if they don't take credit card

Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

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Paper check lol - I think these were banned in Finland in the 90s or so

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the dutch embraced chip and pin long ago, i remember being in a supermarket 25ish years ago and some guy used a cheque, they had to phone the bank, it held the queue up for ages

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here they went the other route: there is OCR that can handle checks built into some cash registers soon there will be check-handling AI

10:44 AM · Aug 2, 2022Twitter Web App

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i can't remember the name now but i think the guy who wrote this lisp variant or lisp to c converter worked on something like that, yan le coune or something, the guy not the lisp