> my grand-grand-grand-father was a farrier in one of the Napoleons' army
I am hopeful that the author did not mean for this idea to apply retroactively.
> There is also no guarantee that archive.org will survive a couple decades. But a notebook in the attic definitely will.
Houses burn down all the time. Pointing out that everybody has access to a theoretically fireproof house is a bit funny for a thought that began with an admonishment about hygiene and food safety.
> Houses burn down all the time. Pointing out that everybody has access to a theoretically fireproof house is a bit funny for a thought that began with an admonishment about hygiene and food safety.
While I do get your follow-up criticism, I took the notebook comment to mean that if I stop paying my “notebook bill”, or a massive solar flare strikes my house, the notebook in my attic doesn’t vanish from existence.
I am hopeful that the author did not mean for this idea to apply retroactively.
> There is also no guarantee that archive.org will survive a couple decades. But a notebook in the attic definitely will.
Houses burn down all the time. Pointing out that everybody has access to a theoretically fireproof house is a bit funny for a thought that began with an admonishment about hygiene and food safety.