Good catch for April fools! I shouldn't have included that one, obviously. For the nathan post, reading the comments reveal that he ends up acknowledging CAP i

Good catch for April fools! I shouldn't have included that one, obviously. For the nathan post, reading the comments reveal that he ends up acknowledging CAP is true, which would make him fall into the "( ) nice try, but blatantly false advertising" box of the list. CAP theorem can be used as an excuse to provide weak systems that don't do much (unfortunately), but it doesn't mean it's what it is meant to validate as an idea, fortunately. As I mentioned in another comment, it's more or less a very basic set of rules (axioms?) to consider when building distributed systems.