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Now the question is: What happens to the DeadMansSwitch service if something were to happen to its maker? It's like we need to form mini multi-generational cults to keep human services like that going for as long as humans keep going until the point they stop.

Uhhh...you mean like, a company?

Yeah, but multi-generational cult sounds way cooler

The research people have been doing into conveying the dangers of nuclear dumps to potentially primitive future peoples is quite fascinating.

Agreed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...

In futureLang:

- Hey, we found some hieroglyphs, in better shape than the ones near the pyramids, do you recognise the gods?

- No, but they all seem to say similar things: Don't open or "Calamities" or something. I wonder what their primitives beliefs were based on... Let's dig!

Maybe I should directly apply that language to my post-mortem open source projects:

This repository is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed code is placed here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.

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