It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by miles on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:31PM (#27337537)

> why do you write your years with a leading zero? I've never seen that before and it has quite a cognitive strain for me.

Not OP, but I had the same question and did a few seconds of cursory searching to no avail. But rather than cognitive strain, I found it opened up a much larger vista on the perception of time and our seeming place in it. While I am unlikely to adopt it, perhaps the experience would be even broader with a few more zeros tacked on! ;-)

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by csande17 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:50PM (#27337701)

OP probably got the idea to place a leading zero before the year from the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by miles on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:53PM (#27337735)

Thank you very much for the pointer!

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by martinflack on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:27PM (#27339729)

Relatedly, I like the Human Era notation for expanding the idea of years, where 1 AD is equal to 10,001 HE to denote approximately ten millennia since the start of human cities and agriculture, i.e. civilization. We're living in 12021 HE now.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by aaron_m04 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:44PM (#27338170)

https://longnow.org/

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