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Voted straight to the top an opposing view that makes a single woolly and unjustified claim ("Youtube transcoding the 500 hours of video it gets every 60 second

Voted straight to the top an opposing view that makes a single woolly and unjustified claim ("Youtube transcoding the 500 hours of video it gets every 60 seconds[0] uses much more power than too many unoptimized PNGs do" - but no figures to back either of those claims up). I see a lot of that on HN, strange thing. I run without JS. If I need JS I start up a VM. It's quite common for eg. google groups to max out the CPU for 10 seconds or more before updating. This is where your problem is. A 100 million CPUs permanently at 100% is where your energy is going. [0] I found this stat backed up here (https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/youtube-stats/ https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/youtube-stats/) You should post this fact to stop other people wasting their time.

lifeisstillgood 6y ago
From the above: Over half of YouTube users use the site to work out how to do things they’ve not done before This is one of the undersung advances of the web - it's become more than access to the worlds knowledge (like some uber library) but has become a new means of transmitting learning. On the other side if one could workout a way to identify a product related to this "new thing to learn" the retargetting value would be huge