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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • can we maybe not propagate misinformation? it was perfectly normal for hunter-gatherers to reach at least 50 years old, and if you think about it for a bit it makes sense that the age where we start to fall apart is about the oldest that people got to in the past, which is around 50-60 yrs.

    the average lifespan in the past was something like 35, but that’s because tons of people died early on, which remained true up until the invention of modern medicine which was like 100 years ago and doesn’t really have anything to do with your diet.






  • also QR codes have EXTREME data redundancy, you can cover like half of a QR code and it’ll still work.

    In our scenario we don’t need much redundancy, since the paper will be in controlled conditions and shouldn’t degrade, and we’ll make damn sure to scan the entire thing without crap obscuring it.

    We also don’t need all the tracking features, all we need is a marking in one corner so we know what way to put it into the scanner.

    All this taken together should result in a data density that is actually realistically useful with just one side of a single A4 sheet.

    Imagine storing a digital photo on a piece of paper, and needing to scan it to reproduce the photo… someone needs to do this!