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Re:Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson by nodesocket on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:54PM (#11535790)
Seriously, how does it take 14 years to verify a design and protect it against counterfeit? SpaceX sent vehicles into space and landed them back here on earth on a moving drone platform in the middle of the Atlantic in less time.
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Re:Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson by maxerickson on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:59PM (#11535818)
10 years of it could just be resting on laurels. If the current design resists counterfeiting well enough, there's not much justification for making a new one yet.

I'm not saying that's the explanation, just speculating.

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Re:Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson by jdavis703 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:19PM (#11537832)
Do you want to pay more taxes to upgrade something utilitarian for purely aesthetic reasons?
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Re:Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson by blackguardx on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @01:05PM (#11535875)
Or you know, the 12 years from Sputnik to Apollo 11...
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Re:Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson by cwt137 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @01:21PM (#11536023)
You have to think about all the advances that will be made in counterfeit methodologies and technologies in the next 14 years and think that whatever they approve will be outdated in 14 years.
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