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Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins by lotsofcows on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:38AM (#6933848)
I love a non-sequitur as much as the next giraffe, but what does banks using MySQL have to do with banks choosing not to go ACID?
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Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins by remon on Thursday December 19, 2013 @07:18AM (#6934188)
Nothing at all other than the ever surfacing assumption by a lot of people that financial traffic is done on ACID like principles (rather than eventual consistency which it actually is). MySQL was a random example as should have been somewhat obvious.
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Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins by lotsofcows on Friday December 20, 2013 @03:27AM (#6940543)
MySQL is a random example of financial traffic not following ACID principles? I still don't understand.

Is this a reference to MySQL, pre-InnoDB, not being ACID compliant? InnoDB's been around for a decade and has been the default database engine for years.

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