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temp512345
3y ago
What do you mean something other than mathematics? It's just a language problem nothing else. Just because the English language lacks the descriptive power it does not mean those objects are "mathematical", just as a round ba
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4y ago
What do you mean exist? All money is just a promise basically. A promise to get some good at a future date and exchange it for that illusory number, be it paper or electronically. By that description yes all that money existed. They were pr
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temp512345
4y ago
Fair enough, maybe compression is a too specific term to apply here but I does not matter if it's compression or not to violate copyright. Compression was a good example to mention because it is already familiar to laypeople and establ
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4y ago
Compression (especially a lossy one) means storing a smaller sample of the original data in whatever form you desire and then using some algorithm to reconstruct the original data up to some acceptable approximation. I would argue that in t
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4y ago
It is exactly remembering the pixels. Just not all of them and it obviously fills in gaps (more hair as mentioned in a another post). You can consider the way it stores those pixels as a lossy compression format. If I copy a music sample bu