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Radical Equality (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this was inspired by a recent xkcd?

At text: People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe for the way in which they are layering them, but I'm pretty sure the reasoning behind it is inspired by content that has been made into comics for quite some time, for example

https://ibb.co/Cn7pRgK
https://ibb.co/6s8Qhzc