More like a political story with no relevance to hacker news gets downvoted.
(And is clearly mentioned as off-topic in the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.")
I once worked with a guy who liked to say the "G" stood for "guaranteed". I kind of like that better. No more worrying about whether "global" is good enough, or if you need to go to the UUID that one commenter mentions.
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[ 158 ms ] story [ 541 ms ] threadMore like a political story with no relevance to hacker news gets downvoted.
(And is clearly mentioned as off-topic in the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.")
It will run for 10790283070806014188970 years. Which is about 83 billion times longer than the age of the universe.
as far as the OP goes, I'd say everybody's getting trolled
Reminds me of the Wheat and Chessboard Problem.
Because we know that the guy who asked the question will not be using a supercomputer.