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[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Even if every single person in the world had a unique gender, you could store that in 33 bits

You can store that in a small QR code

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Those bits wouldn't really provide the information to construct that gender though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Neither would if you stored it as a bit