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@freemo This is excellent news. I’ll explore my options because this to me is a killer feature.

@freemo @rizele ATM access for me is more about deposits. I’m curious if there are banks that allow non-trivial check deposits via mobile app. The banks I have tried have very low limits, but it is extremely convenient when I’m able to use this feature.

@freemo @rizele I was exclusively a credit union consumer for a long time. The primary issue I had was one of convenience: the lack of a decent online experience, and very few brick and mortar locations. As I was moving around cities quite often at the time, it was simply too inconvenient for me.

@Sphinx @freemo Chase is, so far, my favorite retail bank. They have an excellent mobile app and web app. They also have convenient ATM access in my area. The worst retail bank I have used is Wells Fargo, and I wasn’t at all surprised at all the fraud exposed recently.

I use ledger for my financial bookkeeping and Chase supports downloads in multiple compatible formats. I have not yet automated this process (I do this ETL quarterly) but they apparently support OFX: http://www.ofxhome.com/index.php/institution/view/435 which one of these days I’ll wire up into my process.

@freemo A persuasive argument has been made that there was a cognitive revolution in humans 70000 years ago that gave us the ability to have reached this conclusion. That is such a small interval on such unimaginable time scales.

Whenever I need an existential crisis I go to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

@khird @hansw OTR was an amazing innovation. It is very ergonomic.

I found this to be an interesting read on formal methods for verification of complex distributed systems at AWS https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon.pdf

@mngrif I turned voting age the last time this was debated in the United States. The setting and messaging has changed but the motivation has not.

@greylaw89 Not strictly relevant, but this is an entertaining series on hazardous chemicals.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride

There was just an earthquake in my area. USGS has interesting interactive maps showing magnitude in contour lines from the epicenter.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39277736/map