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Comment by munchlax

3 months ago

I'm sorry for your loss if the Internet ever turns out not to be as resiliant as we thought.

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lblume  3 months ago

The modern banking system is entirely built on the Internet. Every electronic transaction is verified by Internet calls, and in the past Internet outages have made payment in some cases literally impossible.

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