Oh, yes, fully agree on the novelty. Fountain Codes are also super cool, were totally novel, and had and continue to have limited utility. While all useful ide

Oh, yes, fully agree on the novelty. Fountain Codes are also super cool, were totally novel, and had and continue to have limited utility. While all useful ideas were once novel, the inverse is rarely true. And that’s problematic when your novel idea has the carbon footprint of several countries.