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		hoseja on Jan 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs I think the presumption is you will not be generating 50 million of them each millisecond.

alpaca128 on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

Which is a pretty safe assumption, considering just generating those 128bits 50 million times a millisecond results in over 20 million TB of data in a year. I think it's safe to say this is not a common scenario.

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