Peter Bailis

This will also address #182

Related: Is there a reason why we have `outlier_count` versus a more generic `population_A_cnt` and `population_B_cnt`?

"There's a trivial analogue of CAP for this failure mode that says there's always a non-total failure mode that causes you to give up either consistency or availability of the...

One can only hope that the development and deployment of inter-planetary distributed databases will predate the Earth's explosions! But, more seriously, while synchronous networks are indeed unrealistic in many cases,...

I haven't forgotten about this issue, and I feel bad for having left it open so long. I'm going to attempt some answers in my [RICON talk](http://ricon.io/west.html#pbailis) in October and...