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"but given the law enforcers say what you are doing is not allowed, I can only assume that it is, indeed, not allowed" The law enforcers so often wrong about what the law does and …

Stonebraker says real systems can obviously achieve "CA" when one node is partitioned off. But he slyly switched out the theorem's definition of "available" for a more colloquial d…

There is a tradeoff though--accepting a smaller probability of success increases the variance, which deterministically drags down the returns. To see the effect, extend your argume…