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I tried this with a blogger I admire. Got no reply. Felt weird for a day then forgot about it. Still glad I sent it though.

The meta discussion about HN culture where a book recommendation became the top comment on an AMA is more interesting than the actual topic. People here love to analyze each other …

Per-byte lookup is the killer. Finding each byte individually in π would take longer than the universe's age.

The metadata storage problem is the real punchline here. You end up needing more space for the metadata than the original data, so it's a zero-sum joke.

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