Just as the benefits of a new technology can be hard to predict, so too are its unexpected drawbacks.

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The effects of an interest-rate rise in such times would be unusually hard to predict.

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Consequences do flow from incorrect or selfish behavior but in the show, these are shown to be unexpected, hard to predict, and more to do with the loss of friendship than anything else, which in any context, is a disastrous outcome.

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As close as this election is slated to be, there could be a ripple effect that is hard to predict, but potentially massive in scale.

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The impact of a long-proposed but yet-to-be-implemented national goods-and-sales tax is hard to predict.

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The outcome of a key debate on whether the party should in future be prepared to enter into a coalition government South of the Irish border is also hard to predict.

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It's hard to predict exactly how bright Pan-STARRS will be, but you should be able to see it without binoculars or telescopes, said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program.

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If things continue down this path, the decline will result in a steady loss of crucial scientific data during a time when, given the range of hard-to-predict effects from a warming atmosphere, it will be needed more than ever.

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If businesses fail to prepare for IPv6, it is hard to predict the full impact, but we do know that some applications will be hurt, resulting in performance and appearance issues for consumers trying to access those sites.

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