You might enjoy @ann_leckie's Ancillary Justice - basically CAP theorem failures and their impact on a distributed self.
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oh neat, I'm asking precisely because it's a plot element in a story I'm working on :D
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P: the roads are gone and we don’t know what’s going on, we have 2 governors now under 2 emperors making diff rulings
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Thank you, that helps a lot and validates my intuitions about what kinds of breakdowns these represent.
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"Ice cream?" C: Mom, "Sure!" Dad, "No." A: "Wait till mom gets home." P: Dad's gone ... let's go ask for ice cream now!
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C: diff governors recognize diff emperors on same day A: sorry, we’re not sure who is emperor right now, governor is taking day off
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PACELC by Daniel Abadi dives deeper down into hybrid CAP cases https://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/07/16/pacelc.html … other examples in here
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Secret agent waiting for victim watched by other agent on CCTV who is waiting to call escape helicopter....
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Agent kills victim, he's in trouble! more bad guys coming. Other agent doesn't call helicopter. Video is frozen!
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