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About 3-4 years later, I was in grad school, I meet this guy in person (he happened to be going to the same grad school), I recognize his name and face, and let him know that he facebooked me back then, and he got a chuckle out of it.
They ended up interviewing Taylor Swift, an MMA instructor from Cheltenham, UK.
How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? If I wanna check the internet for someone, I find it impossible because for a lot of names there's at least thousands of people with the same exact full name. It must give both a feeling of safety but also frustration if you may want to stand out.
In a big company, there are often many people with the same name. some companies may add a numeric suffix to their name like abc1, abc2, abc3.
We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts
Some 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.
A lot of places (India, Brazil) still use one of your parents on official documents to disambiguate (Bob Smith, son of John (or Jill) Smith from Smithville).
Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc. Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. S…
Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.
This is why we should replace names with uuids.
We do have personal numbers used for identification purposees, in my country we have the OIB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number... which superseded the JMBG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number
- How can spies have false identities, if you can account for every individual?
- The only scalable way to get voters is not to make people switch to the opposite party, but to flood a country with people who will vote for you.
This is why we should replace names with uuids.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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A quick tattoo on the arm and your set for life.
And forehead. Maybe four letters, on a scarlet base.