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Can’t that be amortized across all videos (e.g. if YouTube had a decompressor they downloaded once)?
by ec109685 3y ago
Can’t that be amortized across all videos (e.g. if YouTube had a decompressor they downloaded once)?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoYes, absolutely, it's just important to keep in mind when thinking of these decompressors as "magic". If every laptop shipped with a copy of Wikipedia, then you could compress Wikipedia, and any text that looks similar to Wikipedia, really well.