I Am Mark Zuckerberg • Hacker News Board

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by anonu » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:41 AM UTC

xdavidliu wrote: post #101

One time in around 2008 when I was in undergrad, I got facebook requested by a guy named David Liu (same name as me) who was going to a school many thousands of miles away, and I noticed that he had facebooked about 20-30 other David Liu's. 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 f…

Reminds me of this prank where you call two people with the same name and you conference them together and have them figure it out.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by latexr » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:41 AM UTC

tigerlily wrote: post #82

mjd wrote: post #49

Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies. “Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded accomplishments and have other interests. Generally I pursue these interests using separate mail addresses, SS#, and DNA.” It's preserved here: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/de…

This made me feel the world is huge and I know nothing about the lived lives of others.

You’re experiencing sonder.

https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/sonder

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:42 AM UTC

ed_mercer wrote: post #38

jowea wrote: post #11

This is why we should replace names with uuids.

"Ohhh, if it isn't 99adbad3-f3c8-4c52-99d8-be692c62b9db again! Man, what a blast last Friday at e128001f-9737-4245-b08b-73bc50db0204's party, right?"

But you'd call em 99ad for short in casual conversation

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by mdtrooper » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:42 AM UTC

In Spain we have 2 last names:

- first last name from last name first of the father.

- second last name from the last name first of the mother.

And with this method we have collisions.

In Portugal the last name come from the mothers.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by bertil » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:43 AM UTC

A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents.

At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. Another member nearby offered to go and get it. “Won’t you need my ID for that? — Oh, I have one with just the right name…”

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by spacechild1 » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:45 AM UTC

yreg wrote: post #61

defraudbah wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol, if it's downvoted that's how you know americans did it, because people from other countries have no idea why SS number is important or what it is

Oh, we know what it is and we also know that it is terrible for identification. Just hand out IDs with an actual unique id number with a check digit to _all_ citizens.

At least in my country, the SSN is unique and everyone has one.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by koolala » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:45 AM UTC

lukan wrote: post #16

koolala wrote: post #2

it is pretty funny

Mostly "I routinely receive death threats and harassment on the Messenger app directed to the "other" Mark Zuckerberg"

you'd hope they would notice their mistake before its too late

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by bloovis » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:46 AM UTC

My ex-wife had the same name as a woman in another state who had beaten up a cop and done jail time. So every time my wife's driver's license came up for renewal, the DMV decided she was that criminal, and refused to issue the license. This happened so often, she eventually was on a first-name basis with the DMV director, who had to intervene every time. I'm guessing this problem due to the DMV in our little state using an ancient computer system, perhaps written in COBOL in the 1960s. I can just see the code now, where it compares the name, but not state of residence or any other identifiers.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:48 AM UTC

Propelloni wrote: post #99

mat0 wrote: post #8

Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. On a more serious note, I really feel for the people that cannot get any kind of support and try to get some help by messaging "the owner" of the social network they are in. With big companies, you used to be able to get someone to talk to you when you had a problem. Not anymore. The best you can get is a well trained LLM

> Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. Me too! Mark S. Zuckerberg seems to be a relaxed guy with a good sense of humor. Very likeable presentation!

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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by earthnail » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 10:49 AM UTC

eastbound wrote: post #108

dsego wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Countries don’t really want unique IDs per person, even though it would extremely simplify all administrative work, because: - 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.

Both points sound really weak I‘m afraid. From the perspective of a ruler of a country, both are much larger attack vectors for adversaries than opportunities for myself.