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		amelius on April 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distribu... I suppose you can always order events by the time it takes for light to (physically or hypothetically) travel to a central server plus the server's local time.

diarrhea on April 1, 2023 [–]

Network uncertainties like splits and delays will render that impossible.

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