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Storing the text is easy - deciding what text is relevant enough to store is hard.
by dman 14y ago
Storing the text is easy - deciding what text is relevant enough to store is hard.
- VikingCoder 14y agoIf you had the NSA's budget, you probably wouldn't need to decide what text is relevant to store.
- dman 14y agoDeciding what to store is highly correlated with what information are we most likely going to find useful.
- VikingCoder 14y agoWhen I finally bought an iPod, it had 60 GB of storage. I thought, "Which albums of mine should I upload to it?" Then I remembered, "Oh right - all of them!" My point is that deciding what to store is expensive and error-prone, with false-positives and false-negatives. Storage is so cheap, that there's an argument to be made that they can just store everything they want to.