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The there is no "New Internet" without the fictional tech at core, which is, lol, lossless compression of anything. Because of that the fictional truly decentra
by monopoledance 6y ago
The there is no "New Internet" without the fictional tech at core, which is, lol, lossless compression of anything. Because of that the fictional truly decentralized internet scales.
I think the author is missing the parody on ignorant/naive tech-optimism in face of the factual constraints of reality. The "make the world a better place", but really fuck things up joke.
- neckardt 6y ago> fictional tech at core, which is, lol, lossless compression of anything. We have plenty of lossless compression algorithms already[0], am I misunderstanding what you meant? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Lossless_compression_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Lossless_...
- fortran77 6y agoNot of anything, though.
- monopoledance 6y agoAnything, not something. >It's provably impossible to create an algorithm that can losslessly compress any data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Limitations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Limitatio... I think that's the joke in Silicon Valley. Edit: And for the "New Internet" Argument, you especially cannot compress encrypted data efficiently, as that would mean you can discriminate information against random noise, and therefore break the encryption. So you cannot overcome the bandwidth limitations, can't scale the decentralized network arbitrarily. The Silicon Valley New Internet is based on magic. It's a take on the "Problem -> [Hype-tech magic box] -> Solution" type of "idea", you find a lot in people... When people dream, not solve problems. It's 6 seasons around something not possible fundamentally.
- StavrosK 6y agoHe's talking about the show Silicon Valley, where they came up with a compression algorithm that was so good it was theoretically impossible.