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Comment by erg0s4m

7 hours ago

So it has negative weight in this case.

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TheOtherHobbes  6 hours ago

Negative mass = negative energy, so we should be able to make an Alcubierre Drive out of punched cards.

tavavex  5 hours ago

If some PMs today evaluate performance by the number of lines of code, I wonder if the punch card equivalent was weighing the punched-out holes that were removed by each developer.

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