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I think the point is that even with the ability to see the future, they would have still made the same choice, given technical limitations of the time. So there

• msbarnett 11y ago
  > I think the point is that even with the ability to see the future, they would have still made the same choice, given technical limitations of the time. So there's nothing to regret I disagree. We can regret the way something worked out even if we had no other choice to make. That's a pretty normal human thing to do. But we could also regret that, eg) the technical limitations didn't drive them to choose an even smaller address space, one that would have lasted just long enough to get us to a point where we could move to maybe a 2^64 space in the 90s, instead of a space just big enough to become incredible hard to move out of, but not big enough that half the world isn't now living behind carrier grade NAT.