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299 points gastonmorixe | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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seb1204 ◴[12 Nov 25 11:04 UTC] No.45898717[source]▶
Why not just turn it off and say we need money to turn it in again?
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1. onion2k ◴[12 Nov 25 11:41 UTC] No.45898947[source]▶
That might work, but the second order effect would probably be companies trying to do the work of time synchronisation themselves in case it happened again. That would lead to fragmentation and incompatibility.
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2. Aurornis ◴[12 Nov 25 14:20 UTC] No.45900529[source]▶
The cloud providers already use their own NTP infrastructure. Much of it is public and you can use it for free, too.