army1987 comments on Amanda Knox Guilty Again - Less Wrong

7 Post author: christopherj 31 January 2014 04:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2014 08:13:36PM 0 points [-]

Almost every major city is on the coastline, with the exception of Florence.

Milan, Turin and Bologna aren't, though the former two are relatively close to the Swiss border.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2014 09:21:17PM *  0 points [-]

"Almost every". I did not say Florence was the only exception.

Milan and Turin are well within 70km of Switzerland and France, though, so I don't know why you mention them.

This is why I don't comment as much on LW as I used to.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 08:56:48AM 1 point [-]

I was just nit-picking, sorry.

In any event, counting coasts as borders is not something Italians would usually do. I'd think it's much easier to escape a country undetected (at least in the Schengen area) from a land border than from the coast. I'd say that P(x is trying to flee Italy|x is in Venzone) >> P(x is trying to flee Italy|x is in Rome), or Naples, or Milan, or indeed most (by population) of Italy.

Comment author: gwern 01 February 2014 05:51:54PM 1 point [-]

I'm curious, would it even matter if he had escaped to Austria? I was under the impression that the EU had fairly tightly integrated law enforcement & extradition within the Schengen area precisely because it's so easy to move around, and that being in Austria would be a very minimal obstacle for the Italian police.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 06:12:29PM 0 points [-]

Good point.