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mtinkerhess
on April 14, 2009
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YouTube Korea no longer allows users to create acc...
I think the joke is that suppressive, unconstitutional legislation is acceptable if a side effect is that people can't comment on YouTube -- a site which is notorious for its low signal to noise ratio.
TJensen
on April 14, 2009
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Is there really signal on YouTube? I thought you could use the comments as cryptographically secure random noise.
stcredzero
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With a good hash function, that would work! English text has about 2.5 bits of entropy per letter.
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