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by yourad_io
1451 days ago
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This was a great read and indeed quite tragic > People have been trying to build a library like this for ages—to do so, they’ve said, would be to erect one of the great humanitarian artifacts of all time—and here we’ve done the work to make it real and we were about to give it to the world and now, instead, it’s 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen to have access because they’re the ones responsible for locking it up. Could have been great but it wasn't perfect for everyone so it was scraped because surely Congress would take up this noble quest... |
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