Shouldn't 2016 be 2,016? Thoughts on commas

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I wonder if back in the year 999 AD there were hysterical arguments about whether or not the then-modern world was going to collapse because they were adding another digit to the year.

Remember, there was a similar ruckus in 1999 when we were warned our computers were going to haywire because they weren’t programmed to handle the preceding 2.

It was the Y2K bug, that year’s
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Published on December 10, 2015 06:26
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