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I think I'm being more pragmatic and immediately jumping to what needs to change to make this situation treatable. An abstract statement of a problem like this

I think I'm being more pragmatic and immediately jumping to what needs to change to make this situation treatable. An abstract statement of a problem like this is probably great for teaching people concepts about consensus, but hopefully no one knowingly designs stuff that way (except Mongo perhaps)

tonyg 8y ago
If you don't understand what's impossible, you run the risk of trying for something you'll never be able to accomplish. You'll never know why you don't succeed. It's precisely about teaching and learning the limits beyond which it's pointless to even try to go. If it's pragmatic to dismiss impossibility results, perhaps revisit pragmatism.