Re: On Binary Digits

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:32:53 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote in
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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
 

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:58:47 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver
<bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote in <vsh2fn$3fpam$1@dont-email.me>:
 

On Binary Digits And Human Habits by Frederik Pohl =
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This is an April Fool's, right?
 
(Poe's Law would seem to apply...)
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I remember reading the original article when I was a teenager.  I think
it was published in one the SF pulp mags, maybe Analog or F&SF.

I didn't doubt its provenance, I just wondered if Poul was serious.

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