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the reliability of centralized systems is like the reliability of the farmer's generosity toward the turkey: unfailing until the inevitable thanksgiving

the year youtube ceases to be profitable is the year it deletes 100% of its videos and you discover that your extrapolation of its reliability into the future was based on an incorrect understanding of the world

if you've been paying attention, though, you know that a substantial percentage of its videos have already been consigned to the memory hole, so its reliability as a repository of human culture is already observably poor



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