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trebor on Aug 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Back up your precious files on ordinary paper

You could cheaply achieve RAID-6 this way! But data throughput might be abysmally slow though... so don't use it for servers. ;)

evoxed on Aug 13, 2012 [–]

I will be nothing less than disappointed if I do not see someone on HN implement 'papernode 0.1' by the end of this weekend. Maybe some more literal multithreading action. Why not do the whole system... servers from fax machine arrays!

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