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Most of that's great until the power goes out. Or DNS/Cloudflare has issues. Or someone fat-fingered a router config. Or a construction crew/cargo ship breaks a
by theandrewbailey 4y ago
Most of that's great until the power goes out. Or DNS/Cloudflare has issues. Or someone fat-fingered a router config. Or a construction crew/cargo ship breaks a major optical cable. Or an attack happens and everyone overloads the networks. Or bad people steal the databases. Or a government decides to track you.
The old world never had those problems.
- caiusdurling 4y agoThe old world still works in those situations, but we have a better experience when the new world hasn’t experienced a fundamental failure. Seems like a reasonable trade off to me.
- edent 4y agoWell, it depends how you want to define those problems. Paper records got wet, or burned away. Gas wasn't always available for street lights. Forged coinage was a problem - as was bribery and corruption. So we're trading problems - but I know which world I prefer.