Reply to post: Re: Dystopia, one improvement at a time

'Hey Google, remind Greg the locks have been changed, and he should find a new place to live. Maybe ask his mistress?'

jake Silver badge

Re: Dystopia, one improvement at a time

Michael, none of what you reference is an actual new invention. All of it incrementally builds on the work of other people. For example, Spanner is based on the Paxos algorithm, the protocols for which were first published almost ten years before google even existed.

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