aramadia

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1. 31.▲
   by aramadia 15y ago

   It is highly unlikely AWS can handle that kind of load. AWS may be responsible for the netflix interface, but video streaming (the bulk of the data) is handled by CDNs such as Akamai.
2. 32.▲
   by aramadia 15y ago

   You can send a HTTP Get Request which is an upstream traffic less than a KB, and get back 100KB in data (downstream). Torrents where users have a 1:1 seed ratio, will ideally have 100KB upstream for every 100KB downstream.
3. 33.▲
   by aramadia 15y ago

   I doubt PRNG is the issue. PRNGs satisfy the criteria for equal likelihood of being selected which I believe is what they want. A truly stochastic process is not necessary.
4. 34.▲
   by aramadia 15y ago

   Uhh, Newtonian laws have really nothing to do with this. Its more information theory, you can't get more entropy from what you put in. Also, it is clear now that the Newtonian model is not an accurate view of the universe, and that there