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The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001)

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181 points ekiauhce | 1 comments | 23 Nov 24 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.891s | source
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Supermancho ◴[23 Nov 24 23:32 UTC] No.42224729[source]▶
> It's not my fault that a file system uses up more space storing the same amount of data in two files rather than a single file.

It's not interesting to see people play word games with each other in the HN comments, so why is it interesting to see this kind of disingenuous behavior? Trolls have always existed. I don't get what's interesting about it.

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1. recursive ◴[24 Nov 24 00:01 UTC] No.42224893[source]▶
The act of offering a cash prize to prove you wrong kind of makes you look like a jerk. It's assumed that you will use every loop hole at your disposal. Seeing the situation reversed so elegantly makes me root for the challenger.