Isn't the losing of information by digitising sound a particularly bad example? The Nyquist–Shannon theorem states that you can get perfect reconstruction of the wave if the sampling rate is high enough.
Edit: Haha looks like this was the top comment in the original discussion too. Bikeshedding and all that, eh?
Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204464 - Dec 2016 (126 comments)