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by aarreedd 829 days ago
Yes, essentially. However, the 'pinky-promisers' are large, well-funded, geographically distributed organizations that have strong incentives, both in terms of reputation and operations, to keep their promise
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Gotcha, at first I was expecting something that tried to rely on some kind of physical limitation or a property that the passage of time has.