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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by hobofan on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:21AM (#27757329)
Yeah, I'm sure being responsible for 10% of the internet's traffic is trivial on a technical level, together with all the codec and video encoding engineering they are doing.
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by Supermancho on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:44AM (#27773475)
> I'm sure being responsible for 10% of the internet's traffic is trivial on a technical level

> the codec and video encoding engineering they are doing

I am confident that is not what the vast majority are working on. Those aren't constrained problems that a single developer would be responsible for. Making unrealistic statements, is more than a little disingenuous.

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