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yeah - booleans here have three values. "Yeah", "nah", and "yeah - nah"


Yeah nah. Yeah nah = nah = false, nah yeah = yeah = true.


Yeah nah it’s a tri-state, china plate.

In Australia each bit has three posi’s, which means a single byte can count to 3^8 = 6,561

(This also explains why computing is so much more expensive here).


That explains why our internet is so slow too. Every bit is 50% bigger so we can't squeeze as many into the pipes.




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