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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it wasn’t like that. Remember that while computer technology was fairly mainstream, it wasn’t nearly as engrained into our lives as today. So people were talking about a worst-case scenario that involved technological things: potential power outages, administrations maybe shutting down, some public transportation maybe shutting down, … To me, it felt like people were getting ready for being potentially majorly inconvenienced, but that they weren’t at all freaking out.

  I do remember the first few days of January 2000 felt like a good fun joke. “All that for this!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been telling people that the notion that the ER lets poor people die in the US is false; instead, they make you wish you did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any US banks that provide automated access to account data?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint uses an OAuth token (I think through Plaid). This is not the same thing as sharing a username/password, and is authorized by your bank, since they provide the OAuth flow; otherwise OAuth wouldn’t work in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but even when I type one-handed, I also bounce back and forth at each word. Swiping gets short words wrong more often, but more rarely long words.

  So for instance, for “I am on vacation”, the only word I’d swipe when one-handed is “vacation”. If I swiped “am”, I’d probably have a 50-50 chance of getting “an”; which may or may not self-correct later, depending on what else it got wrong.