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> coding only works because it's formal and 100% reliable This is not true for distributed systems: clock skew that is unpredictably different on different dev

by gbuk2013 4y ago

> coding only works because it's formal and 100% reliable This is not true for distributed systems: clock skew that is unpredictably different on different devices and networks are inherently unreliable. Real word physics is messy. :)

zozbot234 4y ago
Even in distributed systems, one usually assumes that there are no Byzantine failures so a kind of reliability is preserved. You need a blockchain to solve the Byzantine fault problem, and that tends to involve a lot of overhead.
mettamage 4y ago
Or HFT