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To quote McLuhan: "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth."
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ycombinator.com
The best things in life are free.
The second best things are very, very expensive.
How It Started / How It's Going
David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)
There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the error on T⟨A⟩ (aka ϵ) is smaller than the amount of time it would take event A to cause anything to happen (e.g. smaller than one network latency): that means that we can be sure that events that are timestamped before T⟨A⟩ *cannot have been caused by A*. This is a rather magical property.
I’m suspicious of any distributed system design that uses time without talking about the range of errors on the time estimate (i.e. any design that assumes ϵ==0 or even ϵ≥0).
It's About Time!
marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
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