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by kstrauser 611 days ago
It “feels” to me like the uncertainty principle. Think of availability as an interval of time by which all nodes have to be connected. If you set A high enough, sure, you can have both CP to your heart’s delight. As A shrinks, you lose the ability to have both C and P and have to pick one. It’s something like CxP/A>n, where n is a constant within a system.