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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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.

[-] khanh@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

why would someone kill him over it? what do you think?

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

most likely he just overstressed because he sold folks a bill of goods

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

and now we have AI and even this wondrous wonder of technology can't figure it out.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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