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I never had problems with any of those.
You were probably registered when you got a drivers license.
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Now all that Social Media, Google account data, online banking info etc. comes home to roost. Unlike Vietnam, one can no longer hide from government in times of unrest. Perhaps that's the wake-up call privacy needs.
> Unlike Vietnam, one can no longer hide from government in times of unrest. That's true but you can leave for Canada or Europe.
Will trans men and women be automatically registered too? Since the US military has previously kicked out all trans people
Not sure about US but since another comment linked to an article about Germany, there you cannot avoid conscription by changing gender.
You can't vote, but you can die for Israel.
As multiple commenters have pointed out, this is actually not new(e.g you get registered when you get your driver's license).
I wonder why flagging brigade on HN has such a thin skin when it comes to anything even remotely critical of the current govt.
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In fact, women tend to outdo men in extreme endurance competition. It’s part of the trade-off for a lower ceiling on absolute strength. But yes, in modern warfare there are as many jobs if not more that require precision or some level of intelligence as those that require brute strength. Even if fewer of them are right at the front line, they’re just as important. You don’t send a large percentage of women to the fro…
Not just endurance sports. Anecdotal evidence, but female rock climbers have been more skilled in my experience. Perhaps because the brute force escape hatch isn't as available.
On the other hand, routes set for female athlete are also very hard for males to compete on. Some of them you can bruteforce (with strenght a la Janja, or with size), but some of them male joints just can't handle the rotations needed.
Still, a male athlete would do better on female route than a female athlete would on male routes imho (at the top level, at mine it just doesn't matter).
But when you're rock climbing in montains with people who have the same experience, yeah, women tends to do better. And even when you're the most experienced, women tends to get better faster especially when you're doing "multi-pitch climbing" (google translate on this, i hope that's right) for a few days in a row.
Is this democratic?
Democratic means giving all citizens a say in government. What are you trying to convey with the word?
Seems something that is the mark of an authoritarian society.
Weird we have this technology but not the technology for automatic voter registration, or automatic tax filing...
Draft registration is compulsory based on residency; registering someone in error has no consequences unless there is a draft, which seems unlikely (no draft since Vietnam, large differences in how the US carries out war since then). In the event of erroneous registration when there is an active draft, past procedure was to allow time to reply and object, including through court process, so an erroneous registration…
The “system” knows who can vote, even if there might not be a unified system currently to automatically validate that.
Same with taxes. These things can be automatically reported at the time of purchase.