Chris: you need to identify yourself if you're going to push your viewpoint here. You're the only author of a controversial blog post that's pushing what I'll gently describe as an interesting theory - not a casual HN observer just bringing up some talking points. If I hadn't caught your CAP theorem quote ("solve the CAP theorem", wha?) and the Nanex reference, I would have missed this and not drilled down to your user details.

Next time, feel free to add a </disclaimer> of some sort.

I'm not an outsider unless you've got one intense No True Scotsmen definition of the word, and I'll leave it at that. Let's just agree to disagree, and I'll say that you are certainly entitled to your opinion. Thank God, it's a free country and a free market :) Good luck.