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by aychedee 2750 days ago
Not quite. It's a claim on a distributed processing infrastructure. Where every node processes every instruction. So not worthless. But not very efficient.
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Very inefficient things tend towards worthlessness. For instance, I could open a business where u send me source code via mail and I will compile and run it for you and fax you the output... my business would effectively be worthless, unless I convince some gullible people that I’m revolutionizing the computer industry, in which case there may be some temporary positive worth to my company’s stock...
> Where every node processes every instruction.

I first read their wp when it already got hype and thought I misunderstood that part. Nope - it’s actually that bad.