[Swizec]

Distributed transactions are a notoriously difficult problem. Unsolvable in theory if I recall.

So a company tht solved it well enough as a backbone tech could be quite valuable on the market

[Closi]

I don’t think you can use that to infer that remembering when a user stops a video is an unsolvable problem.

See: multiple ways to skin a cat

[Dylan16807]

Unsolvable during a network partition, you mean? It doesn't matter if a streaming service can't update your position perfectly across multiple locations during something that breaks the internet.