Several months later, I learned at that time, that they had instituted a standing stop payment order to the merchant we were paying, but only in the amount of exactly $600. Fast forward, we make a $600 payment, get a notification that it went through, no notification of stop payment, but later a notification from the merchant we were trying to pay (Synchrony - Amazon Store Card) stating they were closing our account due to the stop payment.

Meet in person with a bank rep. They have trouble finding the problem, but once found, argue that we must have requested this specifically, for they would never have done such a thing. I didn't even know a standing stop payment for a specific amount was a thing, asked what is normal policy, what bank terminonlogy would cause such a thing. Would not give any answer other than "you must have asked for it". What would I have said? "You must have asked for it" etc.

Currently fighting with the bank for audio of the phone call where they claim we requested this, and with Synchrony telling them it is the bank's fault. We immediately paid balance on closed Synchrony account, and had made ~12 payments successfully before the inadvertent stop payment.

Range of 48-73.5 (peak 53.1+% higher than trough) with a single day shift of ~30%.

You suggest people are usually influenced more by narrative than data, but provide a narrative-heavy, data-light comment, e.g. "always" "know" "mostly steady" (hazy terms for data) "cannot beat" "evil companies" "meme strong".

A followup defining "mostly" and "steady" more clearly, and your purpose in writing in a narrative-shaping style would be helpful.

So much of the world is discussing what celebrities say, and it's incredibly pointless to take them at face value. They are not trying to convey their current or future thinking, they are trying to shape discourse.

Example: I had an inpatient hospital stay where the payment assistant person was never available, never returned calls. Not while I was in the hospital for days, nor in the weeks afterwards.

Technically, I "left against medical advice", though the last doctor I spoke to agreed with what I was doing.

Over two days of trying to manage costs, then 36 hours of planning and asking to leave all basically got me nowhere and I had to kind of force walk out.

Could you create one location educating advanced users, and:

• Promote, Organize and Maintain it

• Develop a group of users that have early access to "upcoming notifications we're working on"

• Perhaps give a third party specializing in making information visible responsibility for it

• Read comments by users in various places to determine what should be communicated. Just under this comment @dbeardsl begins "I appreciate the reply, but I was never under the impression that ...".

The speed that key users are informed of issues is critical. This is just off the top of my head, a much better plan I'm sure could be created.

Presumably your defensiveness (edit: and your downvote) is because you feel attacked. Not my intention, nor was it to associate an organizational concept with its presentation to tarnish it somehow. I think HN readers are pretty observant that fact and fiction are mixed in modern media. I didn't mean "copy" as in "borrowed", I just noticed it was word-for-word.

If I were to "Sherlock" a bit, I would presume you've been attacked before, since you tend to share longer comments, and we all know the more you say online, the more harshly diverse the viewpoints of responses will be. I wish that were not the case. Your comments seem to be detailed and thoughtful, which sadly invites more criticism in the current state of online commenting.

One thing you can do is assume the best intentions of a comment, and respond to that. HN encourages that.

Yes, first/fast is sometimes a negative factor (e.g. first to market doesn't mean best, second to market can take advantage of proof of market proviced by first, etc.)

(If nine of us) "look at the same information and arrive at the exact same conclusion, it’s the duty of the tenth man to disagree. No matter how improbable it may seem, the tenth man has to start digging on the assumption that the other nine are wrong." [1]

[1] https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/world-war-z-transcript/...

If you have Apple news you can share to that in a similar way.