It is not easy to get our heads round the Earth having existed for billions of years, probably existing for millions if not billions more, and our own life in comparison – however long and fruitful – being an almost infinitesimally insignificant instant in the middle of it all.
The design store FredFlare.com qualifies as a venerable institution in that world, having existed for nearly 10 years.
But despite this pattern having existed for several billion years, it still seems to take people in the UK by surprise.
The studio has been working on this story for some time, so we're entitled to expect a bold and ambitious movie, despite the female version of the superhero having existed for just a short time.
While a person can retrospectively prefer not to have been brought into existence, it does not follow that this person would have been better off had she never been brought into existence (but see Roberts 1998, 151, and Meacham 2012, 262, assigning zero-value to never having existed (for discussion see Broome 1999, Parsons 2002, Arrhenius 2003, and Holtug 2004).
The SHA-1 hash algorithm is still in use for verifying the authenticity of digital content, despite the march of Moore's Law ramping up compute power available to hackers in the wild — and despite other, more robust alternatives having existed for years.
