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marginalia_nu
> @simonw/datasette shaped search light in the sky
ipsum2
I don't understand when people make up fake quotes.
cpach
What made you read this as a quote?
thefurdrake
Possibly the leading greater-than sign, a symbol used by a lot of software to indicate quotes.
cpach
Yeah I agree that the ‘gt’ symbol in this case could be a bit confusing, but in the context at least I read it as a way to say something along the lines of “hey, this could be something that might align with Simon’s work of making datasets easier to explore”.
thefurdrake
Fair. Yes.

I was reading it in the style of 4chan greentexts, personally.

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dudus
Aren't there better ways to share this rather than a big csv?

Google BigQuery public datasets and Kaggle. Just two from top of my head.

pgeorgi
Everybody can upload a big csv to archive.org, or distribute it through Tor or BitTorrent.

None of that works for your solutions without converting to something like... CSV.

dudus
Well but you can actually use the data without other tools.

And you can still easily export and offer the CSV as well.

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Tee3993
Here we have precise stats broken down by race, age, drug addiction, mental illness, gender identity... This is not going to backfire at all...
badrabbit
Honest question: what are some scenarios you think this will cause a backfire?