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Re:I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea by kiba on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @07:38PM (#5216787)
All true stories become distorted through repeated retelling. So the true stories are the one that is told the earliest. Better is the one that is told on camera since computers do not have mechanisms for distortion.

That's not our fault, but simply how our memories work. Here's one article on memory distortion. http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/how-memories-are-distorted-...

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Re:I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea by saraid216 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:16PM (#5217230)
> computers do not have mechanisms for distortion

Yet.

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