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by wahnfrieden 5683 days ago
Heard of GUIDs? Make part of it a timestamp, and the chance of collisions goes down astronomically further.
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mayanklahiri 5680 days ago
In some cases, including a timestamp in an ID can be giving away information considered private. Sure, you could just hash the resultant ID, but then you're getting back to random digits anyway.
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