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> FLP and the Two Generals Problem are not design complexities, they are impossibility results.

These are impossibility results given various assumptions and requirements that may not hold in practice, or may be too restrictive. For one thing, i suppose we're pretty happy with a probabilistic solution as long as we can get the probability below an acceptable threshold.



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