Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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#22He could easily use his middle name or go by Marcus. Just saying...sounds terrible having to deal with all the insanity.
I wouldn't want to humiliate myself by letting The Zuck prevent me from using my own name
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#23ctrl+u this ... there's some nice parts commented out
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#24Michael Bolton: https://youtu.be/WjZKVKxZcAo
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#25Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
Yeah, but in this case MikeRoweSoft.com redirects to microsoft.com after the settlement. Uzi Nissan was able to keep his domain to this day, even after his death in 2020.
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#26Some names are problematic, like this one. Some others are lucky [1] (I know it's a joke) [1] https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video...
Even with people that are not famous it can be difficult. My wife knows three people with the same name. So when I ask with whom are you going out she needs to add the city to make me understand.
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#27This is why we should replace names with uuids.
that is silly. Obviously it should be the hash of someone’s genetic code plus the hash of the mind state vector at last checkpoint (to account for twins and clones)
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#28I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like that. At some point there were teenager girls calling me (no idea how they got the phone number). I started acting like they called the right person and there would be happy screams on the other hand. I guess the high point was that. I decided that might not be a…
Michael (A.) Jackson is the inventor of representing programs in this diagram format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
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#29Lol, this reminds me of a funny story. I had a lawyer whose name was Jim Halpert. Turns out he was the very Jim who was inspired his namesake on the office. Asked him about it once. His reply? "Hey, it's been great for getting clients." =)
He was also very much like Jim on the show. Fun times.
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#30This is why we should replace names with uuids.
Right after we upload minds into machines.