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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by mirimir on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:39PM (#19516907)
OK, I see that.

But (and maybe I'm just too cynical) the huge benefit for W3W is that it's much harder to reverse engineer the identifier-assignment code. So only W3W can generate valid identifiers.

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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by CJefferson on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:16PM (#19517175)
The data files you need to store are fairly small. The bigger problem is people who have done their own imple tstion got threatening legal letters.
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