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usrnm • 12/09/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

Why is that? Hours or even days of downtime are still better than just losing all data. It's a simple cost-benefit analysis, and it's ok to pick different trade-offs depending on your use case


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rodgerd • 12/09/2024

I have spent most of my career in newspaper publishing and banking.

A newspaper that doesn't publish for a few days might recover. A bank that drops off the Swift network for days isn't a bank any more.

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