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remarkEontoday at 4:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Clerical errors get corrected. Because they are errors.


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Retrictoday at 5:20 PM

Only in theory is it so easy to separate clerical errors from other issues.

So in practice clerical errors cause all kinds of long term havoc. Once declared dead it can be a monstrous effort to prove to various systems you are in fact alive.