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   "text": "Human business interaction typically requires the possibility that each party may fulfill only a portion of an intended collaboration, a partial performance option that mathematically rigid smart contracts do not accommodate.",
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   "text": "Smart contracts undermine the parties' ability to continue collaborating when unanticipated eventualities arise, because in most cases of unfulfilled parameters the contract will simply cancel out rather than allow partial performance.",
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