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I reckon Earth would need to be around 93M miles from the fusion reactor.

You may be right about COBOL and 1875 but "a datetype that defaults to a random date" is literally how epoch dates work. Except it's not random.

I am right about it. Find a single document - written before the viral tweet that claims this.

The idea doesn't even stand up to basic common sense. Nobody ever thought about the default date in the social security database system before?? Really??? "Uhh, guys, maybe this should be a 'not null' field?"

There is a whole chapter in their manual about how to establish age for people who don't have a birth certificate. They don't just enter null.

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0200302000!opendo...


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