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Re:What Is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible? on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:36PM (#35003073)
I think this is commonly known due to address finders online for shopping etc. providing autofill based on these two items.

However, I would be more interested to understand how the address is used by the postman delivering the mail.

If you have just a post code, do they have to look up the street name (how?) or is it already pre-organised for them so they know that stack/bag X of letters all corresponds to street Y and so they only really need to look at the door number?

Re:Absurd Trolley Problems on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:52AM (#31997999)
Or we can say (for example) that drivers kill 30-40k Americans every year. By being a bad driver and choosing to drive you are a fractional murderer.

But that's fine because and and I bad drivers are not.

Re:Absurd Trolley Problems on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:06AM (#31997320)
The measured side of me always wants to err on the side of inaction.

The one about life savings is a difficult one and I think at a distance without the peer pressure or emotional bias of a high pressure situation I would certainly choose to save the life savings.

More interesting I think would be a question involving family members. How many people do you kill (by pulling the lever) to save a parent, or your child?