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by viraptor 969 days ago
When you're near a border you typically don't want to get your car ride routed over 2 border crossings just because it's the shortest path. Skipping the borders is definitely not a "better off" situation.
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When we're borderless, there's no border for your car to cross.
Yandex removing displayed borders doesn't move us in any way closer to borderless world in reality. No country is seriously considering it. It's not a canary for anything - they stopped displaying borders exactly because countries/people care about those a lot.
We stopped requiring photos on CVs because some employers cared about them a lot (in order to discriminate).
"we" is not all countries of the world.
Sadly. It does't detract from my point, though: caring about something can result in bad consequences.
But it's categorically different. Removing pictures from CVs so that corps are unable to discriminate based on that image still maintains the concept of "employee". Doesn't removing borders effectively remove the concept of "citizen/national"?
> No country is seriously considering it

Schengen says hi.

These border checks are waived, not abolished. In times of crisis, they can (and were, during the Pandemic for example) reinstated. Countries can impose movement restriction for internal regions as well, but these carry a much higher legal overhead.

Also, Schengen borders are transparent only for full EU residents. If your visa and right of abode is restricted to a particular country, the borders are still very relevant.

Even for EU residents, the borders are still relevant as they demarcate places with quite different civil and penal law codes.

That's a big hypothetical. Mapping companies are not the arbiters of where borders exist. Knowledge of where de facto borders are is pretty useful for directions.
A nice fantasy, but something tells me a borderless reality is not in our near term or distant future. Maybe by the time Star Trek is more fact than fiction
How will you know which laws apply?
I guess the next logical step after the borderless society is a lawless one /s

More seriously, as much as I’d love to live in a different world, borders are not going anywhere.