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This article reads like someone who has a very superficial understanding of the theory he/she claims proves his/her point. For starters, the two generals problem does not prevent one party knowing a message they sent previously was delivered exactly once. It just prevents both parties knowing about some common knowledge in the presence of message loss. Not that I am claiming to be any better!


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