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Re:Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps by saalweachter on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:28AM (#23723374)
Eh, we have clay tablets thousands of years old that are just lists of things.
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Re:Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps by IncRnd on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:08PM (#23725643)
Here, in this conversaion, the discussion is about the visceral need that people have to categorize and place other people into databases. It's not about lists of things.
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