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bemildred

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4. Yes, and that is why our centralized power system is a bad idea.

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 08:20 AM

Mar 2014

Centralized systems have bottlenecks and when those fail it has large consequences. Robust systems are distributed, like the Internet, and avoid centralized functionality. Also, such systems scale up much more effectively, with less loss of performance, again like the Internet. That is kind of why the Internet is the way it is, so it could scale up really well.

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