Tim Urban

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Super rough estimates: If an average book is 2 MB, and there are about 140 million books in existence, with a handf… https://t.co/4A3hK6NWJ3 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2022

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A 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956 vs. 1 terabyte today. A terabyte hard drive in 1956 would be the size of a 40-story… https://t.co/xliW4ww58G — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2022

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Cool we might be able to get it down to like 100 of those cards. 10 little 10-stacks—not even a big handful. https://t.co/hBhmAuv7fs — PolitiTweet.org

@waitbutwhy By applying text recognition to PDFs (n Adobe Reader, anyway) you can shrink most books to <1 MB, so it could even be half t…

Posted June 20, 2022