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The index of your 20 line file is <20TB number>

Unless, in turn, you locate the index itself in pi at a much smaller index. And so on...

Find k candidate indices for your data, then locate each of them. If the smallest one is a significantly smaller index space, repeat.


Can't tell if you're in on the joke or not, but for anyone who is genuinely wondering whether this might work: Consider that there are at most 256 different indexes that could be represented by a 1-byte index value, but if you're trying to store 9 bits of data, there are already 512 different possible things it could be that each need to be represented by a different index value, otherwise you won't be able to tell them apart. Those pigeons aren't gonna fit.

That’s what variable length encoding is for!

It's recursive as well, you now need to store how many levels of indirection of indices you had to resolve, which will in turn take 20TB to store, unless you store that in pi as well, which in turn...

Of course native people didn’t call themselves Indian prior to settlers assigning them that name, with legal consequences. But native people usually refer to their tribe identity, like Diné or Lakota, rather than the generic term Indian.


The irony in your example is the modern Pentagon is largely a collection of private companies.


Everything is eventually private. Each employee is a private individual. That doesn't matter. What matters is how money is collected, and if it's forced out of people by tax, instead of being handed over voluntarily, there's no incentive to be good.


A collection of private companies contracted and administered by government.


Let's get back to filling the front page with Web3, DeFi, NFTs. Oh the good ol' days.


It’s been almost two days since someone posted /e/OS, so those good ol’ days aren’t entirely gone :)


Sounds like this: https://solidproject.org/about

But yea privacy is a silly thing to propose to a surveillance industry.



Good to see that there's new episodes and they've still got their mojo - putting it on my list.


The National Lampoon did it in the early 70's.


So this 'portfolio' is <200M on a net worth of 16B? This is like someone worth 1M selling $600 worth of stock.


A 200M sale on a 16B net worth is like someone worth 1M selling about 12.5k of stock.


I was off by a zero, thanks! He sold about 100M of NVDA on 16B net worth which would be 6.25k on 1M.


The parent comment is probably just talking about temporarily timing the bubble pop.


How will the AI wealth get distributed to people at large?


Bernie Sanders talks about a "robot tax" that is roughly what you're talking about. https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-robot-tax-ai-...


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