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I use this as my handle online in a few places (github, irc). Hi!
My first reaction to seeing this headline was recognizing it as a username. I thought that was here but given you are newly registered it must have been the place with the ducks.
I can see an advantage to having the beginning of the next line immediately beneath the end of the previous line -- it avoids a greater refocus adjustment distance to start new lines. This would greatly reduce mistakes where the nth or (n+2)th line is started by mistake instead of the (n+1)th. However, I don't immediately see an advantage to flipping the letters across the vertical axis for each new line.
My best guess there is that flipping the letters encodes the reading direction of the line, to make it easier to pick up reading at any specific place.
In an earlier comment you mentioned being signed up for cryonics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10209152
I'm currently considering the procedure and I'd love to talk with someone who has signed up for it. Could you send me an email please? Nagnazul at gmail dot com
Thank you very much!