Re: Dystopia, one improvement at a time
Frankly, jake, that's a load of crap. By that standard, no primary research is "an actual new invention". And the most important novel aspect of Spanner is its handling of time skew, which is in no way anticipated by Paxos. (And, by the way, I'm very familiar with Paxos and its many variants.)
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