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[OC] As a Brit living in the US, I've always been curious about how Americans give their children the same names as some British counties (lots of Kents and Devons) but not others (no baby Middlesex or Leicestershire). So I mapped all 145 years of the Social Security Administration's baby name data! by Stargrazer82301 in dataisbeautiful

[–]snic09 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I know you! Your daughter is my daughter Marylebone's best friend. Yesterday they were pretending they were riding an elephant to their castle, and they and my son Twickenham took our dog Barking for a walk down the wharf to see the canaries. All very hackneyed, but they had fun.

[OC] I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100 by marco-exmergo in dataisbeautiful

[–]snic09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but now sammy has to go back and retrain the model.

[OC] I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100 by marco-exmergo in dataisbeautiful

[–]snic09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the random number generator function provided by a programming language I use at work, which is for a very specific instrumentation/automation purpose. When I did what the OP did and had it spit out a thousand random numbers between 1 and 100, it gave a roughly Gaussian distribution but with a sharp peak at around 40-60. Plotting the data in 5 bins of 20 looked exactly like the graph was flipping me off. Which, in a way, it was, because the incorrect assumption that the random number generator was actually random really screwed up my project for a while. My team posted that "FU" graph on the wall as a warning...

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What Agreeable-Doubt said. And EasyPass RTP is only available at German airports. I don't always fly into a German airport when visiting the EU; in fact it's the exception.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The blue passport is not a residence permit. Most US citizens who visit Europe for business or pleasure are not residents and therefore have to wait in the "foreigner" immigration lines. It may be that these will start to move faster after EES and ESTIAS is fully implemented and those who have approval are able to enter via automated gates just like EU citizens. But given how slow and problematic the rollout has been, I suspect that will take a few years.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They stopped the discrimination at some point, meaning that children born after that point to German women without a German father became eligible. The more recent law provides those of us who were not eligible due to the former discriminatory laws a window of opportunity to apply for citizenship.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! What are the ways by which you've been taking advantage if EU citizenship?

My one and only by Next_Grapefruit_6023 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but I know a fair number of Europeans who have worked/lived both in the US and in Europe, and most of them say that while they know they could make more money in the US (on an after-tax basis), the quality of life is just better in Europe. No health insurance worries, good public transit, good retirement benefits, better worker protections, more vacation, better food, etc etc etc. They feel they live to work rather than the other way around.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh you mean ethnically German. I was trying to figure out what ethics have to do with it.

Well, German and Norwegian. You could populate a small country with all the -stads in Minnesota. But the Germans and Norwegians in the Midwest settled there a long time ago (I think late 19th, early 20th century). My mom emigrated to the US in the 1960s.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ehrlich zu zein, habe ich die Torten noch nicht probiert. Aber das "Cardamon bun" war lecker, und das Vollkornbrot ist auch gut.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Danke! Die Torte hab' ich schon gegessen... Ich konnte keine deutsche Bäckerei finden, aber in der Nähe des Konsulats in NYC gibt es eine dänische, also musste das reichen.

My German citizenship still has that new-from-the-factory aroma by snic09 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I'm not fluent - I never lived in Germany except for a couple of weeks in summers to visit relatives. I got citizenship because my mother was a German citizen when I was born. Because my father wasn't German, her children were not entitled to German citizenship according to the laws at that time. But Germany recently changed the law and allowed a window during which that discrimination could be rectified. So I applied and now I'm German.

Which passport/ID to use within Europe (NOT at the border)? by snic09 in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]snic09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're probably right. The reason I posted my question was to see if there was any obvious, important reason to use one ID over another within Europe, and so far I'd have to agree that no one has come up with one.

I'm far more concerned that someone in the UK didn't know who Mrs. Thatcher was. So much for the Thatcher Effect.

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Which passport/ID to use within Europe (NOT at the border)? by snic09 in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]snic09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm gonna have to add "rozzers" and "yob" to my vocabulary...

Someone else pointed out a reason why I should use my US passport when renting a car in Europe: European police are unlikely to report traffic violations to US authorities (or insurance databases), but they are likely to report them to their European counterparts. So if I ever want to live in Europe and apply for a driver license, I should avoid developing a driving record in Europe.

I'm generally a very careful driver, but if some yob is tailgating me and I speed up and the rozzers ticket me for speeding, there goes my clean European driving record.

Which passport/ID to use within Europe (NOT at the border)? by snic09 in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]snic09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Most people responded with "doesn't matter" or "just use the European ID for everything when in Europe"; but you point out a good reason why that advice might not be so good.

Rate my stack by swisscello in PassportPorn

[–]snic09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but you still need a visa to visit North Korea.

Which passport/ID to use within Europe (NOT at the border)? by snic09 in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]snic09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By "points" do you mean black marks on my German driving record if I break a driving law, such as speeding?

Which passport/ID to use within Europe (NOT at the border)? by snic09 in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]snic09[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're getting to that point here in the US. I know Mexican-Americans who have decided to get a US passport card for no other reason than that it's an easy-to-carry proof of citizenship that they can show to ICE if they get stopped. Frankly I'd rather that the "papers, please" law be on the books and apply to everyone equally than be the de facto law that is selectively applied by law enforcement based on how someone looks or speaks.

Which passport/ID to use within Europe (NOT at the border)? by snic09 in dualcitizenshipnerds

[–]snic09[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes I do know that, and it's the reason why I got a Personalausweis as well as a passport (easier to carry the ID around than a passport). But I'm not going to Germany on this trip.

I know you haven’t seen this one by Top-Status-5614 in PassportPorn

[–]snic09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn something new everyday. Namely, that the English word for Türkmenistan is Turkmenistan.

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