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The point is that if everything is in a single giant "library", and it burns down, then everything is losf forever.

But if there are copies here and there, there is much more chance that at least some will survive the centuries.

Eg, single point of failure vs redundancy



>The point is that if everything is in a single giant "library", and it burns down, then everything is losf forever.

What.cd suddenly comes to mind...


That was so tragic.




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