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sherburt3today at 2:45 PM1 replyview on HN

40 bits would've bought us a lot of time and would've kicked the can down the road several decades. People from the future would be much better equipped to design a new protocol because they understand their needs better.


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inigyoutoday at 9:05 PM

How many decades? If several means six, we're already halfway there and at 50% deployment. What's the point of designing something you know will be obsolete the moment it hits 100% deployment?