This discussion is very interesting and I would like to read up a bit more on your argument and why is this so.
I know that distributed systems are hard, but this is a problem that I find interesting to learn more about.
Martin provided a number in his original blog post, I also elaborated a bit more on my various points in other comments.
I read a bit on BOOM and it's not a field I'm keeping up with so I figured it would be no point in more references if I didn't understand the more shallower levels of the discussion first.
Sorry about that, I tried to jump a bit too soon, and thanks for answering :)