To: Texas Fossil
Here’s the thing about efficiency:
It is VERY fragile. A completely efficient system is one long chain of potential single points of failure waiting to happen. If any one link breaks, you’re screwed.
Robust, fault-tolerant systems rely on redundancy to route around failures until they can be fixed.
7 posted on
03/18/2020 1:29:40 PM PDT by
Little Ray
(Freedom Before Security!)
To: Little Ray
Back in the 90’s I described it as a “Faberge Egg”. Incredibly beautiful, intricate but very delicate.
9 posted on
03/18/2020 1:36:07 PM PDT by
Shark24
To: Little Ray
A completely efficient system is one long chain of potential single points of failure waiting to happen. If any one link breaks, you’re screwed.
24 posted on
03/18/2020 3:04:23 PM PDT by
Albion Wilde
(Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
To: Little Ray
Yes. I was in the wholesale hardware distribution business (wore a number of hats) for 35 years, with 2 privately held companies.
When I started in 1972, there were 225 full line wholesale distributors in the USA. Now there are under 15 (may be even under 10) depending upon how you define it.
27 posted on
03/18/2020 3:16:33 PM PDT by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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