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by urbit 3278 days ago
Also, I would say that the worst thing about the inability to do EOM on the Internet stack is that it puts the responsibility for idempotence on the application programmer, then tests that corner case 1 in 100 times, maybe 1 in 1000.

It is not impossible to handle a system that produces rare corner cases. It's just expensive and a pain in the butt.