{"id":42731965,"user":"stavros","time":1737068146,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

Oooh it's the guy with octal years!","comments":[{"id":42732081,"user":"greenbit","time":1737068901,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

Noticed that too, but it has a '9' in it.

Best guess is, he's not about to let the Y10K problem catch him napping.","comments":[{"id":42732292,"user":"__MatrixMan__","time":1737070290,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

It's kind of silly, but I do like the philosophy behind it: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...","comments":[{"id":42733730,"user":"dmd","time":1737083874,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

Why not two zeros? Or three, or more?","comments":[{"id":42736111,"user":"kragen","time":1737110263,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

I wholeheartedly support your decision to use three or more zeros on your years in the future.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=42736111"},{"id":42733904,"user":"__MatrixMan__","time":1737086186,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

If the people around you are planning for 1y and you're suggesting they plan for 7976y, I think that's probably radical enough.

To suggest they plan for 97975y or 997975y seems a bit obnoxious. At that point you're either just being contentious for the sake of it, or you're pretentiously implying that you have godlike predictive power.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=42733904"}],"comments_count":2,"level":2,"url":"item?id=42733730"},{"id":42732884,"user":"cryptonector","time":1737075555,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

See The Long Now Foundation.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":2,"url":"item?id=42732884"}],"comments_count":4,"level":1,"url":"item?id=42732292"}],"comments_count":5,"level":0,"url":"item?id=42732081"}],"comments_count":6,"url":"item?id=42731965"}

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