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anigbrowl • yesterday at 10:01 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This isn't clever or insightful. You can of course condense down critical information into a survival handbook, but in existential crises you don't necessarily know in advance what you'll need to know. Wikipedia (as a benchmark repository of knowledge) is ~5 million pages and would require a decent-size room to store if printed out. By contrast, a laptop + solar panel can fit in a backpack. SD cards/USB sticks with the capacity to store all of Wikipedia are a few $ each.

If things are so bad that you need to factor in the non-operability of any electronic devices, how many indestructible paper libraries are you planning to build and manage in advance, and at what budget?


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_superposition_ • today at 12:55 AM

The pedanticty (or is it pedanticness???) on hn is astonishing sometimes.

If there's any place to get an answer it's here.

Bravo my friend. And I mean that in a good way. Love me some diversity.