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You are dropping a lot of context here.

In the first instance, every second we get a 'truly fair' random sample from all the messages in that second.

Going from there to eg a 'truly fair' random sample from all the messages in a minute is not trivial. And it's not even possible just from the samples, without auxiliary information.



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