rvnminers-A-and-N
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examples/ has a script that runs a pool on one machine and leaves it up, scripts that run each workload against a pool, and a sample text. docs/multi-machine-test.md walks through a test on two or three real machines: what to run, what to break, what should happen, and what to report. The README gains a 'Trying it' section. A worker now ignores an invitation it has already used, so it can be restarted with the command that first started it.
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The Boulder
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Every morning the boulder is at the bottom of the hill, and every morning
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someone has to decide what to do about it. The hill does not care. The
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boulder does not care. The deciding is the only part of the arrangement that
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belongs to anyone.
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There are two ways to move a boulder. The first is to put a shoulder against
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it and push, alone, for as long as it takes. This works. It has always
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worked. It is also how you come to believe that boulders are a private
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matter, and that the hill was built for you in particular.
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The second way is to notice that the hill is covered in people, each with a
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boulder, each quite sure that theirs is the only one. Nobody on the hill is
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short of effort. What the hill is short of is arrangement: a way for the
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person who is resting to lend a shoulder to the person who is not, and to be
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lent one back.
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That is all a network is. Not a bigger shoulder, and not a smaller boulder.
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An arrangement by which effort that would otherwise be spent standing still
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is spent on something, and by which the something is checked, so that
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nobody is paid for standing next to a boulder and breathing hard.
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The checking is the difficult part. Pushing is easy to fake from a distance.
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A boulder that has been pushed and a boulder that has been described as
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pushed look much the same in a report. So the arrangement has to ask for
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more than a report: it has to ask for the boulder, at the top, where anyone
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can walk around it.
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None of this makes the hill shorter. The boulder still rolls back. But a
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boulder that many people have pushed, and that many people can see has been
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pushed, rolls back to a different place than it started from. That is the
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whole of the claim. One must imagine the hill, eventually, somewhat flatter.
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