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by secondcoming 606 days ago
> 95% of implementations I see have edge cases where messages might be lost or processed out of order.

Eek. This sort of thing can end up with innocent people in jail, or dead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

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The problem (or the solution, depending on which side you're on) is that innocent people are in jail or dead. The people that knowingly allowed this to happen are still free and wealthy.

So I'm not particularly sure this is a good example - if anything, it sets the opposite incentives, that even jailing people or driving them to suicide won't actually have any consequences for you.