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I'll bite, what's up with those zero prefixes?
by effie 6y ago
I'll bite, what's up with those zero prefixes?
- radicalcentrist 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
- cpeterso 6y agoPreparation for the Y10K problem. Five-digit years is something the Long Now Foundation started using to encourage people to think longer term: https://longnow.org/about/ https://longnow.org/about/
- stjohnswarts 6y agolol that's ridiculous. We'll either have wiped ourselves out by then or be so far beyond problems like Y2K that it's a ridiculous thing to worry about
- kragen 6y agoMore fun than worrying about global pandemics or nuclear meltdowns!
- thelean12 6y agoHoly hell, talk about premature. That's 100 lifetimes away. Is it still April 1st?
- krrrh 6y agoIt’s promoted by the Long Now Foundation, as a way of encouraging thinking on 10,000 year time scales. https://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/
- why_Mr_Anderson 6y agoThat's so -idiotic- short term thinking. 10k years is nothing in the timescale of the universe.