@mcnees

I think it's more *Sulzberger* decisions rather than actual business decisions. Seems to me sales would edge decidedly upward if they actually did start covering Trump honestly.

@davespice @mcnees

sure helps to find the version of the image that *doesn't* have somebody's thumb covering the first two bits (10)

Ob1001000111100000111101111
= 0x123c1ef
= 2343407 + 2^24
= 19120623

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/images/banknotes/50/polymer/polymer-50-specimen-back.jpg

@davespice @mcnees

Ob01000111100000111101111
= 0x23c1ef
= 2343407
= 11²×107×181

Trying it little-endian, I get
0x7bc1e2 = 8110562
(November 8, 562?)

It's not valid UTF8 in either direction (assuming adding a leading 0 to get it to 24 bits was what was intended but evidently not...)

okay, I'll bite; what's this supposed to be?

@johncarlosbaez @internic @mcnees

general moral of the story being, if somebody is doing a field jump, watch out:

whether it's William Happer doing climate science,

or Roger Penrose doing computer science,

or Sabine Hossenfelder doing developmental biology,

the fact that they're Physicists doesn't necessarily mean they know what they're talking about when the subject is Not Physics.

(for a non-physicist example, cf. Linus Pauling on the subject of Vitamin C).

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