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No, those go down all the time. AWS had three nines last year. Bitcoin had the value overflow incident.




Credit cards still worked…

Email still worked…

Again, there are fault tolerant distributed systems out there that don’t rely on a single point of failure.

That’s not to say failure doesn’t happen.




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