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Our World Works Because of a Game of “Bet You Can’t”

5 pointsby shahahmedover 3 years ago

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rememberlennyover 3 years ago
The quoted StackOverflow post is gold:<p>&quot;A mass-murderer space rock happens about once every 30 million years on average. This leads to a probability of such an event occurring in the next second to about 10-15. That&#x27;s 45 orders of magnitude more probable than the SHA-256 collision.&quot;<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4014090&#x2F;is-it-safe-to-ignore-the-possibility-of-sha-collisions-in-practice" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4014090&#x2F;is-it-safe-to-ig...</a>