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I’m challenging the notion that 2 decades is a meaningful timescale to evaluate the value of an idea. Prime numbers are the reason you can use the web securely
by ryanjshaw 1y ago
I’m challenging the notion that 2 decades is a meaningful timescale to evaluate the value of an idea.
Prime numbers are the reason you can use the web securely over WiFi. It took 2,500 years for that to happen.
- TheAmazingRace 1y agoI'm pretty sure I would have figured the usefulness out a long time ago if it truly was going to make a difference. Two decades is plenty of time. On your comment on how prime numbers helped with WiFi. I say "cool... but I don't have to directly think about it and everything around it just works since it's transparent to me." Again, some folks might value this for their own reasons, and that is their business. It's not my right or interest to tell people how to spend their money. But the downsides and the externalities of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency make it not worth it for me. I don't want to be my own bank. I want people smarter than me to manage it on my behalf.