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by DigitalSea 4580 days ago
I've yet to find an excuse to download some of this data to play with. I have a feeling my ISP will personally send around a bunch of suits to collect the bill payment in person if I were to ever go over my 500gb monthly limit by downloading 102tb of data, haha. I would still like to download a subset of the data, from what I've read apparently that kind of idea is already in the works. I just can't possibly think of what I would do, perhaps a machine learning based project.
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I'm on Comcast and download around 3TB/month with no problem. But seriously why you should download big data to work with? It's cheaper and faster to do it in 'cloud'!
Why not grab it to/with a VPS?