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Comment by dtech

6 years ago

It's not fraud or libel, it's an unavoidable problem with in-band signalling [1].

I assume the government entry system doesn't have an explicit way to set the data as missing, so they work around it like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling

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dtech

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voldacar  6 years ago

Guess they should have used the Maybe monad!

  • quickthrower2  6 years ago

    They'd type in: Just "NULL"

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