Re: On Binary Digits

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: On Binary Digits
Date	2025-04-04 07:19 +0000
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:32:53 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote in
<1ra7jgx.h5zwq0kwpxjmN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>:

> 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 =
>> >
>> >
>> This is an April Fool's, right?
>> 
>> (Poe's Law would seem to apply...)
>>
>>
> 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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