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by ebiester 903 days ago
Law is a fundamentally hard problem at scale, especially with a federated system that has bug fixed 725 years (post-Magna Carta) of edge cases.

If you think the second system effect is bad on a 20 year old system, try doing it for centuries of evolutionary system that started with 2-3 million users and has been forked.