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I liked seeing your reasoning and method for creating decks. I purchased Anki and have tried using it several times over the years, but haven't found a way to get myself to stick to it. You're right, using other people's decks was mostly boring, and I tried using it instead of reading books.

Having a guideline of how to stick to a process might help.

This same thing happened to me -- a compliance review and e-mails about closing my account. I hadn't even changed my name, but got requests for my mother's information. Thankfully I wasn't a seller, but it took me over 3 months of constant calling before I could get it resolved. I was constantly handed off in between customer and seller support before I decided to e-mail jeff@amazon.com. In the end, I was able to suss out that this is some back department of Amazon that does compliance reviews, has a limited grasp of English, will not take direct phone or chat correspondence, and is only good at constantly asking for government ID and offering no other help.

An executive support representative reached out after I e-mailed Jeff and was able to figure out what was going on since all of the previous reps had no idea and kept passing the buck. I was in fear that I was going to lose my buyer's account, and hadn't sold more than $100 on my seller's account.

A tip for anyone else going through this: no one reachable through regular CS channels knows anything about this issue and everyone will tell you conflicting things. The only way to resolve it is to reach out through executive support. I tried escalating multiple times and people would tell me to not worry about it, then I would get e-mails asking for the info again or saying that my account was closed (it was not).

I use a cheap 3.5mm-accepting headphone set [0] if travelling, or a pair of AKG K550 [1] modified to accept a 3.5mm replaceable cable, with a V-Moda boom mic [2]. The boom mic is what makes this combo. It's really cheap, and crazy resilient. I have been travelling with it for the past year and trip over it all the time. It's still going strong, and it's also the best headphone cord I've ever had as well.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TADC6CS/ref=twister_B011QQ1W4E?... [1]: https://www.amazon.com/AKG-K550-Closed-Back-Reference-Headph... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BJ17WKK/ref=s9_acsd_hps...

People who use Vim usually re-map caps-lock to ESC at a minimum, and possibly other uses. Mine is esc by itself, ctrl with any other key.

I do remap the function bar right now, though. That will take some getting used to.

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That's an interesting way to put it...

Nope, that's only for the same station. Assuming you swipe into station A, exit station B, and swipe again at station B, you're fine.

If you swipe into station A, realise you got into the wrong entrance, you can usually just walk to the 24-hour booth and ask them to let you in the gate.

Also you can walk to another station.