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Re:Without maintenance, most digital information will be los... by chrisco255 on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:51PM (#37355449)
The only reason you can paraphrase Thomas Jefferson is because his words were archived a long time ago, and the archives have survived all this time.
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Re:Without maintenance, most digital information will be los... by grglburgp on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:03PM (#37355591)
Sorry; I did not make my point clear. Were they his words or is the association made up?

Without direct observation it’s hearsay.

What’s the point of maintaining associations we can’t verify? The truth that Jefferson stated such is only hallucination for us.

The value is in the awareness of the realities mechanisms, not the association with Jefferson.

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