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		jclem on Oct 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swarm.js and React – Real-time, offline-ready web ... It looks like their clocks/IDs are a combination of local timestamp and user ID? Is there technically anything in place to prevent duplicates?

gritzko on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

There is a detailed post on timestamps at http://swarmjs.github.io/articles/lamport/

Lamport timestamps are "guaranteed" to be unique.

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