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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: 0.208s | 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. Timwi ◴[24 Nov 24 02:24 UTC] No.42225492[source]▶
I do agree that this last sentence (the one you quoted) is very unfortunate and doesn't match the wit of the rest. A better closing remark might have been something on the lines of, “I never claimed to have performed any compression. I only claimed to have met the terms of the challenge. I asked if I can send multiple files and the response was ‘sure’. I provided the files; they meet the total file size criterion; and the script correctly reconstructs the original files.”