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Great essay! Really seems to have tuned into the current feelings of cynicism and loss of belief in progress as a tool for a better future. Reading the comments, it feels like a lo…

Great article! I feel like I am dealing with so much of this behaviour at my job recently. It feels like most of the people espousing Best Practice never learned that "appeal to au…

Really enjoyed this article. Longevity and health increasingly seems to be intrinsically tied to planning for better things, hoping for better things and enjoying the process.

This looks really cool. Would have bought it but the price is a bit too high for me (I live in New Zealand as well so when you convert from USD then add shipping costs etc...).

FWIW, I consider that definition to be both reasonable and (in the context of "distributed systems") authoritative.

Great! I agree 100%. We have to assume a "reliable network" within a "boundary" (i.e. a computers CPU, memory, busses etc...). Distributed systems (from which these rules are taken…

> why can't I choose to view "the system itself" as the thing that is on the other side of a de-duplicator? because the "de-duplicator" would either: * be somewhere else on an unre…

If "you" are "downstream" of a "de-duplication mechanism" how do you ensure "exactly once delivery" between "you" and the "de-duplication mechanism"?

This comment really hit home for me, thank you for posting it. Thinking about it, for the last few years the only motivating thing about work has been to "do it for the person next…