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by dcminter 8mo ago
I asked for the purpose. You guessed at the purpose. those are different.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
A year or two ago I had a similar issue booking to see a Broadway show in NYC... baffling because surely a large percentage of their custom is international tourists. It must have been some kind of temporary glitch, but we had to do somet
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Even if one takes this as legitimate, the "foreign" passport gives enough information already (otherwise they couldn't prevent me from acquiring an ETA with it).
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Amazingly obvious to jamespo is not normally the standard by which new immigration rules are introduced.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
That's your guess. The UK authorities have never given this reason.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Yes, changes to the long standing status quo affecting 3 million people with no justification given, nothing to complain about. Sheesh.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
It's a big change and not one that's been justified.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Why should any special architecting be required given that I am an EU citizen with an EU passport. On the contrary, effort was expended to prevent me from obtaining an ETA to no purpose that has ever been justified. Yes, I personally am n
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Can confirm that UK immigration was annoyed by it, but it was perfectly legal nonetheless.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Sure, but it was a change that was slipped through under the radar without any proper justification for it (the situation wasn't even clarified for dual nationals until quite close to the deadline).
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Much the same with the US ESTA requirement. I miss the good old green Visa Waiver forms that we had to illegibly scribble on during the flight over :)
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Most years I don't visit the UK. My european passport is far more useful to me. Note that this is an active change to the status quo. Up to and including today I had no need for my UK passport when entering the UK on my Swedish passpor
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by dcminter 8mo ago
It costs money and my European passport is far more useful to me.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
> if you enter a country whose citizenship you have you must always enter with the travel document or proof of citizenship of that country. no exceptions. Completely untrue. I have done so perfectly legally.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
> It's not unreasonable to ask for the British passport Why? What legitimate purpose does this serve?
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by dcminter 8mo ago
My native-Swedish friends all complain about the bureaucracy here, but it is so much more efficient than the British stuff. Some of that, though, is a side-effect of the ubiquitous "Bank ID" identity tool - which suffers from th
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Aside from this app issue there's another instance of bloody minded bureacracy that affects dual citizens: As a dual citizen living outside the UK, to visit Britain I cannot apply for an ETA. Instead I must have a British passport, OR
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by dcminter 8mo ago
> Definitely a lot of modern ideas and institutions had their origins in coffee shops, though. There are accounts of discussions between Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley, and Isaac Newton in a London coffee house. It's a wine bar now and
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by dcminter 8mo ago
If you delete the photos path element they do actually have a fallback resolver that redirects you to the appropriate path under photos. E.g. flickr.com/mwichary/sets/72177720330077904 does take you to flickr.com/photos&
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by dcminter 8mo ago
"Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?" Quite.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Same; I liked it so much I added it to my rss feed reader so I don't miss future posts.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
It doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the comments so far, but as a floppy-disk era developer I remember my mind was blown by the discovery that DEL was all-bits-set because this allowed a character on paper tape and punched card t
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Yeah, we used to have a couple of the removable phoenix platters knocking around. Of course now everything tends to be solid state even terms like "drive" are becoming less common.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Plus a common alternative to "hard drive" was "hard disk." My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.
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PXL2000(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by dcminter 8mo ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 8mo ago
If you email hn@ycombinator.com they can probably help you zap it. Or just leave it - unless the post gets upvotes it won't appear on the front page anyway. If you didn't see already, then Guidelines and FAQ links are at the botto
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by dcminter 8mo ago
I'm supplying the link to the reddit thread here because the person who typed it in from the GQ article provides a bit of additional context.
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Text of Terry Pratchett's 1995 Bill Gates Interview(old.reddit.com)
1 points by dcminter 8mo ago|1 comments
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In Memoriam Robert Tinney(tinney.net)
8 points by dcminter 8mo ago|3 comments
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by dcminter 8mo ago
So honestly I don't quite remember if I encountered this with the Wangs, or if I'm recalling my Dad telling me about it from his experiences. If the latter then odds are that it was either a machine from Wang and in that case

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