birth location and aliveness status #6
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Questions need to be invariant over a lifetime. Could we have 16 bits for latitude and longitude of birthplace? That gives almost 1 degree resolution on the surface of the earth, enough to narrow it down to a particular city.
If you really want a unique identifier, then the 33 bits should be extended to 36 bits and one bit assigned to alive/dead status. TODO: figure out how to handle cryonic suspension, people declared legally dead who later turn up alive, and new births. (Neither zombies nor ghosts will be implemented because they aren't real.)
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Most people were born in the northern hemisphere. |
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Requires extending address space from 33 bits to 36 bits.