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by tibbar 736 days ago
This is a false equivalence, as one user’s particular usage of SQLite is not comparable to all financial instructions’ databases.

Better to compare to the prospect of all smartphones being irreversibly corrupted at once.

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Literally all smartphones dying at once is preferable because they are all backed up into heavy duty databases. You can restore every phone from the cloud in this thought experiment.

You can not restore a data center from a pile of phones.