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I expect there's still at least one twist left. rjett [0] and I [1] noticed two more interesting things: 1) Sam commented in the previous thread about buying
by lotharbot 15y ago
I expect there's still at least one twist left. rjett [0] and I [1] noticed two more interesting things:
1) Sam commented in the previous thread about buying food for homeless people from the card [2]
2) Sam's brother Daniel was one of the first to mention the possibility of the card being hacked [3]. His startup also funneled close to $600 into the card [4].
The whole thing started as a social experiment. Sam clearly considers what he's doing a part of the social experiment. I think it's still ongoing -- I fully expect another post, possibly later today or tomorrow morning, detailing the different reactions to his "I bought $25 of food for the homeless" comment and his "I bought $675 worth of food for starving kids in Africa" comment. Couple that with "me and my brother actually paid in what we took out" and we've got the makings of quite the experiment!
[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878622 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878622
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878196 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878196
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857712 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857712
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858120 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858120
[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danielodio http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danielodio -- $100, $49, $300, and mentions of a total of $85 on twitter
- danielodio 15y agoIndeed: @Socialize has paid $625 to @Jonathanscard to promote our SDK Speed Challenge. That's enough for an iPad, @sodio! http://besoci.al/q2I0QE http://besoci.al/q2I0QE http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878875 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878875
- samoa 15y agoThat genuinely is great, but whose brothers are going to pay into @Jonathanscard to cover the results of posting the exploitative code used to fund iPads that enables laypeople to do so on their own?
- uxp 15y agoThat script isn't any more exploitative than one that `curl`s weather.com to make sure it isn't raining outside.