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Re:A More Flexible Paxos
on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:05PM (#12293841)
So I'm pretty a similar problem could exist. If to accept a proposal we only need 3 nodes, not a majority, and we manipulate network latency in arbitrarily bad ways, a similar split brain could occur. Basically, you could commit the same transaction twice under different proposal numbers.
Re:A Report on the Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries
on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @03:22AM (#12171120)
Sadly, what's even worse, is as I was reading this, I wondered if it might be an attempt to undermine the Democratic Party. The barrier for determining the origin of their funding and the organizational composition of the group is also high enough that I don't know how to figure out trustworthiness...