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because with that knowledge, you will be able to decompress 0 dollar to infinite dollars which the storage mafia will pay you for not publishing your breakthrou
by Eduard 3y ago
because with that knowledge, you will be able to decompress 0 dollar to infinite dollars which the storage mafia will pay you for not publishing your breakthrough in making them obsolete.
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoLet's say you really find a new, much much better compression algorithm for texts. I do believe that soon new applications will appear that will make use of the whole storage space that existing data storage devices can offer.
- ephbit 3y agoAre you possibly hinting at the endless stream of "new generation iWasteware camera, now with 2 gigapixel sensor" in combination with camera apps that put a (high) limit on the lowest resolution one can choose?
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoI did not have exactly this application in mind, but I was aware that this kind of waste does exist for many commercial applications when I was writing my reply.
- airstrike 3y agosorry, who exactly is the storage mafia?