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  "title": "Jottings of Vishal - hash",
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      "title": "Philosophers spent two thousand years on the Ship of Theseus: replace every plank one by one, is ...",
      "content_html": "<p>Philosophers spent two thousand years on the Ship of Theseus: <em>replace every plank one by one, is it still the same ship?</em>\nA programmer heard the question, ran the planks through a hash function, and said &quot;<em>no, it&#39;s a different ship, here&#39;s the receipt, can we go to lunch.</em>&quot;</p>\n<p>Turns out the riddle was only hard because everyone insisted the answer had to be profound. Ask &quot;the same in what sense, and who&#39;s asking&quot; and it stops being philosophy and becomes inventory.</p>\n",
      "date_published": "2026-05-29T06:56:41.792Z",
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