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Yes, people are doing that. I think it's risky.

One way to think about it, though, is that many important processes have a non-zero error rate. Particular those involving people. If you can put bounds on the error rate and recover from most errors, maybe you can live with it?

An assumption that error rates will remain stable is often pretty dubious, though.




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