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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

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