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oblio on July 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

So it's decentralized because Google has multiple servers? And here I was, thinking that Google runs everything from a single IBM mainframe.

What you're saying would be described as distributed... Not decentralized.

HeWhoLurksLate on July 4, 2020 [–]

Seems to me like it's easy to forget there's a difference between those two..

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