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"In the user-facing network you also need every packet to arrive intact — customers would be pretty unhappy if a key sentence in a document or e-mail was dropped."

Why bother trying to illustrate with examples, if you're gonna write things like that?



It's arguably accurate; a UDP text-based protocol could drop that key sentence. Nonetheless, it's wired. What did you expect?


Accurate for maybe a text-based talk client, but you wouldn't use UDP for docs or email. I expected more from Steven Levy.


What makes this sillier is that in a decentralised internet, TCP needs dropped packets to detect congestion and keep latency down.




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