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Consistency-Throughput Tradeoff

“It is impossible to allow dynamic shared state to change frequently and guarantee that all hosts simultaneously access identical versions of that state.”

We can have either a dynamic world or a consistent world, but not both.

 

"The more precisely  the POSITION is determined, the less precisely  the MOMENTUM is known"
Werner Heisenberg : "Uncertainty Principle"

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