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> That's near enough to true for anyone not operating at "web scale". FAANG/BAT engineers need to care.

I’d argue even then it’s really not much a concern. You’d need to generate 1 billion UUID v4’s per second for over 75 years to have a 50% chance of there being a single collision.



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