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by ball_of_lint 572 days ago
I think it would be better to require a meaningful percentage (say 1%) of compression rather than an exact count of bytes. Especially while people can ask for arbitrarily large files.
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The chance that a randomly generated 1KB file can shrink by 100 bytes is the same as the chance that a randomly generated 100MB file can shrink by 100 bytes.

And that chance is too low to distinguish from zero before the universe dies.