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From: | Jon Bright |
Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency |
Date: | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:17:53 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
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 Silicon Circus Ltd. http://www.siliconcircus.com
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