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by tnbp 868 days ago

  Some more clever sites asked for my birth year… forcing me to do the arduous work of taking the current year and subtracting 14.
But why? You could have just picked a year that worked, and sticked with it. Obviously, there's no way of telling which year works, but you could have bruteforced that just once.
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> Obviously, there's no way of telling which year works

Um, it's simple maths. Guessing you're meaning something else though?

probably the thrill of living on the edge.
Arithmetic under stress is a helluva drug.