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   "text": "Adding more regulations, processes and procedures cannot restore confidence in institutions, because the traditional trust and cohesion mechanisms have already reached their limits.",
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   "text": "Identity verification does not fix the sockpuppet problem, because whenever the reputation is genuinely valuable a sockpuppet operator can afford to clear whatever verification hoops are in place, including stealing biometric data, and then inflate reputation as before.",
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   "text": "The other horn of the identity verification dilemma is that when reputation is not valuable, honest users will not bother to go through the hoops required to identify themselves securely.",
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   "text": "Proposed remedies for patch size, namely distributing the workload across a broader set of reviewers and providing better transparency on developer review queues, have not solved the problem; patch size remains an issue affecting the quality, speed, and effectiveness of modern code review.",
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