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They encode videos ahead of time and they likely decided that whatever hardware you’re judging them by is only .9% of the market so fuck those guys.

Big companies use percentages in places they shouldn’t and it gets them in trouble. .1% when you have a billion users is a million people you’re shitting on.

For me that might be a dozen people. Very different.



Encoding and storing billions of videos in a format used by 0.1% of users feels like a waste though


robustness is only wasted if you're lucky


The context above was exclusion of people based on income level.




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