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nextaccountic | on: UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
If there's a collision, just generate another uuid
dtjohnnymonkey | parent
It would be hard to know whether there is a collision at generation time. If you did know, it implies a lookup in a global database, then you are back where you started.