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Jonathan Corbet

Just got a nifty bit of spam from a bot claiming to represent Weedmaps (a site for people trying to find cannabis products). They were, it seems, much impressed by an LWN article on hash collisions and were wondering if we could find it in our hearts to mention them there.

I am still trying to understand just what a "hash collision" would mean in that context; perhaps I don't have enough weed in the house to obtain the necessary insight.
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@corbet presumably that's the kind of hash collision that results in a DUI?

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@corbet Could it be a purification thing? Like if you throw two bricks at each other REALLY HARD maybe they end up more pure?

Or more a physics thing? If they collide fast enough they fuse into a new previously unknown drug?

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@corbet
Anyone who talks about hash that much must be of interest to Weedmaps, or at least that seems to be the logic. The people at Weedmaps must be consuming copious quantities if the secondhand smoke is enough to cause cognitive impairment in their bots.

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@corbet 'hash' is a common abbreviation for hashish, the cannabis resin.

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@alrj I am surprised that people seem to think I'm unaware of that. Seriously...I live in Boulder... my question is what they think a "hash collision" is.
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@corbet Shut up and take their money! ;-)

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@corbet Maybe when two different strains mixed has bad side effects or something?

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@corbet @alrj And in Geneve they spent quite amount of bucks for Large Hash Collider... :)
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@corbet @alrj The city well-known for the classical Boulder Hash computer game!

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@corbet They were probably high when they read it, and saw "hash collaboration" instead of "hash collision."

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