Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency

[Jon Bright]

J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:20:57 +0200
> Jon Bright <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > J C Lawrence wrote:
>
>
> > But if something's so incredibly improbable that a hardware failure
> > whilst also winning the lottery is much, much more likely, it's not
> > worth thinking about.
>
>
> I disagree, mostly as it fails to distinguish between "the probability
> of it happening to me" versus "the probability of it happening at all".
> In facetious contrast I would offer:

Since no-one else is worrying about this, I figure only the probability 
of it happening to you matters.  Either way, if these are the things 
keeping you awake at night, I wish I had your problems.

--
Jon Bright
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