• BilSabab@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    so basically there was a dutch tech bro in the late 90s who claimed he had developed a compression technique that could turn a movie into just a couple of kilobytes and right when he was going to sign with some investors he mysteriously passed away leaving no documents explaining his invention.

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      1 hour ago

      And his investors family were stabbed, and another guy relates to it had is car blow up. Random or coordinated?

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        2 hours ago

        Not saying that’s what happened, but if I ever find myself in a similar situation, I’m faking my death and move halfway across the world in heartbit. After I get the money of course

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          Yup. It seems a lot more likely than solving a problem that we still can’t solve, and that might not even be possible, in the 90’s.