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grubert says...

I don't think it would be necessary to poll for all videos, only those which are more likely to be dead. I don't have the data at hand but I would assume it's correlated to how old they are and how long ago they were last viewed. Also there's no need to poll unsifted videos or videos with a low number of votes or views since they're less likely to be viewed sooner than a video with a high number of votes or views.
You can poll around 10,000 videos per week (60 x 24 x 7 = 10,080). It'd be interesting to calculate the total number of views for the top 10,000 most viewed videos compared to the total number of views for all videos. I bet the ratio is over 50%!

Paper Airplane Guinness Record by Takuo Toda

Paper Airplane Guinness Record by Takuo Toda

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The Demise of the US Dollar

grubert says...

Robert Fisk's article is here. The basket of currencies to replace the US dollar in the oil market would be comprised of "...[the] Chinese yuan, the Euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar."



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