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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by chongli on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:15PM (#21010905)
That will never work. Data will always expand to use up all available storage. It's like trying to build more roads when your city has a traffic problem. You build roads to reduce traffic and improve commute times, and then more people start commuting from further away.
Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by cousin_it on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:55AM (#21013668)
How about archiving all text written by everyone? Napkin calc: if every person in the world (10 billion people) types for 8 hours every day, at 200 characters per minute, 4 bytes per character, we need 10000000000 * 365 * 8 * 60 * 200 * 4 = on the order of 1 exabyte per year. That's a huge overestimate, but the world's storage capacity is growing much faster than even that.

Or think of it this way: the lifetime output of George R.R. Martin is <10MB. The output of 100000 writers like him could fit in a 1TB drive ($50). If everyone in the US was as prolific as GRRM, you could archive their lifetime output for $150000. Everyone in the world, $5 million. That's 1/20th of the investment that Juicero got.

Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by afiori on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:50AM (#21014742)
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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by OrgNet on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:22PM (#21010989)
you are probably right... but what if it was like IPV6 where there are so many IPs that they should never run out... the unlimited storage dream.
Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by eukaryote31 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:37PM (#21011158)
Unlike IP addresses where you get exponentially more of them per unit cost (i.e size), storage space costs 1 bit per bit.
Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by OrgNet on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:01PM (#21011855)
I don't think that you understand what I said... I don't mean that IP addresses have anything to do with physical space. I only mean it in the sense that IPv6 supposedly solved a problem and we need the same thing to happen to storage space.
Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by StavrosK on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:23AM (#21013276)
He understands perfectly, it's theoretically impossible to get infinite storage in finite amounts of matter.
Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by OrgNet on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:20PM (#21017699)
What I was thinking is that maybe we can use the 4th or maybe 5th dimension to hide all that matter. /s