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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by xondono »

eastbound wrote: post #108
dsego wrote: post #94

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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 which superseded the JMBG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number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.

That's BS, you can have spies with or without unique IDs, and there's better ways to get votes than creating fake people.

Also, a lot of countries do have IDs...

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by stacktraceyo »

For a long time I would get hardcore stopped and hassled at the airport cause my name matched a terrorist. Although I was born in the USA. Made no sense to me why our system would flag someone just by name

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by walletdrainer »

yreg wrote: post #61
defraudbah wrote: post #44

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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.

How is it terrible? SSNs rather reliably identify individual people, actual non-fraudulent collisions are very rare.

The fraud is a separate issue and SSNs are obviously misused, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a reasonable system to uniquely identify multiple people with the same name and DOB.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by razingeden »

GeoAtreides wrote: post #135
lordnacho wrote: post #130

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Are criminals not allowed to drive?

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i had the exact same first/last name / birth year as a kid in my school (town of about 3,000) and were both “juniors” so our dads both have the same name. that makes four of us.

unfortunately that guys got some problems .. duis… domestic batteries.. drug possession ..

i have been walked out of a couple jobs for “not disclosing my record” and having to sort that out.

then the one time i did get into trouble. my expungement was denied because i had “so many priors”…… and then i had to go back and explain that NO, thats not me. it was approved.

then process servers, warrants, derogatory credit entries cause the guy doesnt like paying his bills.

i eventually got a sealed name change and that was the end of that.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by liqilin1567 »

Agraillo wrote: post #143
liqilin1567 wrote: post #103

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> How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? 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

> We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts It's interesting how cultural differences can make some life algorithms hardly work in some countries. I sometimes use a method to find people from my past by googling their full name, switching to the image results, and spending a manageable amount of time scrolling through them until I find the person. I've successfully used this method several times.…

Wow this is so rare, I can't recall any case like this.

But there are celebrities with exactly the same name, the media add a "big" or "little" prefix to their names according to age

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by balamatom »

latexr wrote: post #112
tigerlily wrote: post #82

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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

No, you're an experienced tumbler.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by baubino »

mywacaday wrote: post #137
bertil wrote: post #115

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. A…

I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirm…

I’m in the midst of a similar situation. My firstinitial.lastname email keeps getting very sensitive legal documents from law firms handling the case of someone who does not seem to know what their actual email address is. I called the firm and told them they needed to have an in-person meeting with their client and get a correct email address from them. That seemed to help for a few months. But now I’m getting emails again from a different law firm.
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