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Trader gets painted stones instead of $36M of copper

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51 pointsgmays17 comments

also, the world's oldest customer service complaint! delivery of the wrong grade of copper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

If anything, that should be a serious incentive to do honest business and treat customers well. Imagine being the only one of your generation known by name to the world 3500 years later... because of an accidentally preserved complaint about your service.

To the contrary, it shows that most (n-1) complaints get lost over time, so why care? /s

Previous discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26403857

I wish thise links would work in the mobile HN app.

There's no "the" HN app - only a bunch of different third-party projects. If one isn't working, there are plenty of others out there to try.

Apart from broken links, what is the benefit of using an app other than the web browser to peruse HN on mobile?

They work in the one I use: “Octal” for iOS

Works in MiniHack on iOS (unofficial)

works on Materialistic for Android

I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion.

It's comical how some of the blockchain space aspires to solve some of the world's problems with underpants-gnomes level business thinking. I guess HN already understands this.

> I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion.

I see what you did there. Nice.

Also, I had to look up "underpants gnome". For the other three of you who don't know what these are they feature in an early episode of South Park (which I thought I'd seen all of, but no). They steal underpants and use them to profit. Turns out they're also the originators of the "1. Something, 2. Something else, 3. ?????, 4. PROFIT!" meme that I've seen posted for the last 20 years, particularly on Slashdot in the early noughties, but never known where it came from.

Not something I expected to learn via HN but I suppose we are living in unusual times.

https://www.cafepress.ca/+crypto+underwear

https://thatcryptohustle.com/products/bitcoin-rocket-launch-...

https://www.amazon.ca/niBBuns-Underwear-Cryptocurrency-Busin...

step 1) print cryptocurrency themed underwear

step 2) ???

step 3) profit!!!

Yes, I don't see how blockchain technology will solve a problem like this in any way whatsoever. No entry in a blockchain and labelling thereof on containers will prevent breaking the seals on a contain and swapping out real for fakes.

Blockchain may be able solve a few different problems, but this isn't one of them.

I'm probably dumb, but it feels like all the guys pushing blockchain on trying to solve the problem that the world tends to run on trust and good faith, because those things make them deeply uncomfortable.

This is enough to be FU money for all people involved: "I'll disappear, pay off police, blame Ali, do 4 years in jail and still have money..."

NFT that cuprum!

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