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kayo_20211030

> We do not create abstractions for abstraction's sake but to simplify our current task

So far, so good.

> We are not smarter than others, others are usually not smarter

Nope. That's _almost_ a non-statement. I'll readily admit that there are many more people smarter than I am. They've done good prior work, why would I not use it? Yeah sure, let's write our own crypto code. Guaranteed recipe for disaster.

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A strange straw man to pick a fight with, since the text agrees with you:

> Avoid cryptography, if possible, as you should write all the code yourself and doing your own cryptography is a well known mistake.

The point is that there are a lot of other things which easily become a problem if you do them by yourself instead of using known good implementations.

I think you might of missed the point of this one!

That's completely possible. I'm struggling with what I see as the internal inconsistencies. Do `X`, Do `NOT-X`, Do not `X`. All possible points of view seem to be there. Was that the point? I reread it and I'm still not clear about that.

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