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Post by avaldes »

TrevorJ wrote: post #76
gswdh wrote: post #13

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I heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign would draw attention to the site if it could not be understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to reduce the chances of anyone digging.

There's a common theme among fantasy stories of a race of (usually dwarves) that 'dug too deep' and uncovered something evil underground. It's interesting that this cautionary tale already seems embedded in our lore. I wonder why? Have we made this mistake before, at some point in our forgotten past? Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.

Maybe those stories refer to natural fission reactors. Cursed stones buried deep in the ground that heat themselves and kill people who comes too close.

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Post by HPsquared »

Y_Y wrote: post #100
sbierwagen wrote: post #14

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Regrettably, the actual markers at the WIPP burial site are far more boring and government-y: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP_Large_Surface_M...

The deliberately use simple language, and then go and use "berm" in a way that makes it pretty hard to understand without knowing what a "berm" is. I know a lot of English words, but I'd have to look that one up.

It also optimistically assumes the intended readers, living in the future, will have finally adopted the metric system.

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Post by dang »

crazypython wrote: post #88
dang wrote: post #73

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The flags were correct. The first link was unsubstantive, and you can tell from the comments why people were flagging it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112503 . The second was flamebait on the biggest flamewar topic in months. By the time it was posted HN had had a massive number of threads about it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713650 ). It's easy to see why users would consider yet another su…

> By the time it was posted HN had had a massive number of threads about it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713650 ). Almost all the threads you linked to were misinformation or anti-RMS posts with no substance. Stallmansupport.org is a website made by a group of women, with articles only from women, debunking the sexism claims. It is rich in primary sources. Yet it gets flagged. Non-substantiative news l…

Your perceptions of one-sidedness are coming from the force of your passions. I assure you that people on the opposite side of this story say exactly the same things, just with one bit flipped.

I addressed all of this in depth at the time (ironically, in a submission of the same URL that you posted, which wasn't killed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714003

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713701

That took hours, and I don't have hours to write anything new. If, after reading those comments, you still think there's something I haven't addressed, please double-check to make double-sure that I didn't address it. If it passes that test, ask me then and I'll try to answer. In the meantime, though, please don't post new variations in this endless sequence.

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Post by blamestross »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #112
4bpp wrote: post #86

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If I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal form" lies. Can you describe it in Chinese writing? A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus ? Is the determinant whether any sound sequences used for human communication are being encoded? What about only using the purely pictographic Chi…

Looking at it from first principles: Information given in the SCP tell us that digitally stored files are affected to. That seems to mean digitally stored text . Text in a digital form is just a way to indirectly reference pictures to be shown on the screen or printed. Sometimes it's a straight lookup table correspondence (ASCII), sometimes more complex (Unicode); there may be noise (OOXML). I'd guess that, in contex…

Huh, the server has not been stolen yet, maybe it doesn't work the way we think.

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Post by jcun4128 »

1_player wrote: post #59
kickscondor wrote: post #40

Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!

LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 * Time Cube: https://timecube.2enp.com/ -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two menti…

Cicada 3301 is also a movie now released in 2021, I was surprised it had some basis in reality.

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Post by ctdonath »

outsidetheparty wrote: post #68

SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of htt…

Bravo. 5031 was a brilliant read. (“Salt”, OMG.)

First encountered SCP by chance, absolutely baffling - so much fictional detail. Favorite is the self-filling whiskey tumbler.

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Post by Severian »

ohazi wrote: post #47
MrRadar wrote: post #18

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You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp

If you like this, you should also consider reading qntm's other work -- I thought `Ra` and `Fine Structure` were particularly good: https://qntm.org/fiction

Oh wow! I didn't know he was the same author. I've been looking all over for the Fine Structure website since reading it ages ago and lost my bookmark. Thank you!

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Post by hatsuseno »

kevinmgranger wrote: post #94

For additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words, the length of the first ever entry. Of course, the entry with zero words won. [1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest

Seems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents, like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.

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Post by NortySpock »

TrevorJ wrote: post #76
gswdh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign would draw attention to the site if it could not be understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to reduce the chances of anyone digging.

There's a common theme among fantasy stories of a race of (usually dwarves) that 'dug too deep' and uncovered something evil underground. It's interesting that this cautionary tale already seems embedded in our lore. I wonder why? Have we made this mistake before, at some point in our forgotten past? Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.

"dug straight down" and fell in a cave... cave might have been full of something that eats flesh like piranha or bacteria, or even just angry bats...

Seems pretty trivial for this kind of lore to get started.

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