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Animatslast Wednesday at 5:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's reasonable, but it belongs to the era when the world ran on tracks of printed paper.

A useful line for process improvement today - "You should never have to tell the computer something it already knows." That was a Steve Jobs line that got lost somewhere.


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nicboulast Wednesday at 7:13 AM

It would still be useful for Germany then

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drewcoolast Wednesday at 10:09 PM

FTFA:

> it centers on citizen experience rather than administrative convenience

There is not paper, real or implied, involved in that goal.

jon_richardslast Wednesday at 6:10 AM

And yet we still enter zip code after the rest of the address.

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