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Lets ban redundant computation. I see all these inefficiencies in everyday software engineering: container isolation spends unnecessary resources, hundreds of t
by Jhsto 5y ago
Lets ban redundant computation. I see all these inefficiencies in everyday software engineering: container isolation spends unnecessary resources, hundreds of thousands of Wordpress sites run on their own servers instead of a single big Wordpress multi-site, HN and reddit are more or less the same so deleting the other would relieve unnecessary load somewhere.
I think regardless of the application, it is important to allow everyone to choose their own level redundancy. Crypto is bad for the environment because of blockchain's redundancy. Banning an application because of its redundancy sounds absurd to me.
- ttt0 5y agoYou want a Big Brother looking over your arm at all times or how exactly would that ban even work?
- kwdc 5y agoRedundant calculation isn’t necessarily a bad thing by itself. That redundancy is often buying insurance against data loss (ECC?) and resiliency. A giant wordpress site isn’t necessarily more power efficient or even more secure than a distributed network of them. Multiple tradeoffs. I didn't even suggest banning crypto at all.
- inglor_cz 5y agoI run my own Wordpress site precisely because I do not want its very existence to be subject to someone's elses whims. It is only inefficient if you do not consider freedom and independence to be valuable.
- oliwarner 5y agoIt's not redundancy that's the problem. "Blockchain" isn't the inefficiency. It's the silly proof of work race to sign transaction blocks that's inefficient.