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Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage by quarantine on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:05PM (#24276743)
Why stop there? ipv6 license plates, citizen numbers, home addresses, part numbers, atoms, ...
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Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage by gruez on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:38PM (#24277091)
You joke, but that’s exactly what uuid/guid is — 128 bit identifiers. The only difference is that ipv6 is allocated hierarchically.
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Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage by Aeolun on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:23PM (#24276936)
Do we have enough atoms?
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Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage by ineedasername on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:21PM (#24278418)
Don't worry, if we live in a cyclical model universe we'll eventually get some new ones.
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