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Re:Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything ... by unixhero on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:28AM (#29738053)
Jawdropping. So this is the 33 degrees I've heard people throw around. Thank you so much for elaborating in such a detailed and insightful way.
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Re:Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything ... by mateo411 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:33PM (#29742930)
Another way to look at this is that 2^ 33 is about 8.5 billion

>>> pow(2, 33) 8589934592

There are less than 8.5 billion people in the world, so you could just create a map from each person to a number in the set.

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