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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by catern on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:04PM (#30858657)
Most distributed consensus algorithms, or distributed systems in general, are not resilient to nodes producing arbitrary wrong results. That's the realm of systems like Bitcoin, which achieve such resilience by paying big performance costs.

So it shouldn't be surprising that computers have the same lack of resilience.

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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by anonymousDan on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:47PM (#30861795)
Sorry what? That is exactly the purpose of Byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithms, which have been around for many years.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by catern on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:13AM (#30866299)
Sure, that doesn't contradict what I said. They have been around for years, and they are very expensive and almost all systems do not use them.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by anonymousDan on Thursday March 31, 2022 @06:09PM (#30872765)
They are a lot more efficient than bitcoin. But agreed, not cheap.
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