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The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by oasisbob »

thetimewotitis wrote: post #139
Aozora7 wrote: post #26

This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.

I mean in theory, it doesn't have to be a serial number, and I think that's better. Something about it suggests being enlisted in a national army. It says the state assigns "A body" a number. -vs- The state is made up of us as individuals. So while the serial keyfield is a data engineers dream, politically I'd welcome something more personal. Time of birth/parents and other identifying information is on our birth cer…

Names and even dates of birth aren't consistent enough in records for this.

You're reinventing a natural key with a bunch of identifiers which aren't stable enough.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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altmanaltman wrote: post #23
kazinator wrote: post #4

You can't seriously match people on first and last name and claim "fully matched". Think of how manny John Smiths there are? How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ...

> How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ... The same Jobs that routinely denied publicly that he was the parent of his daughter, even though he knew? The same Jobs that cheated Wozniak financially? The same Jobs that led to a change in legal legislation on how organ transplants work? The world needs to move on from this marketing bs that he was somehow a "great" man who is morally solid and must be…

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Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by projektfu »

cbsmith wrote: post #9
kazinator wrote: post #4

You can't seriously match people on first and last name and claim "fully matched". Think of how manny John Smiths there are? How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ...

As a guy named Chris Smith, I can tell you, people do absolutely "match people on first and last name", and it causes me no end of trouble.

I failed a background check once because they even ignore middle name/initial. The record in the system had a different MI and I provided mine. Also, birthdate, location, race, etc., were all mismatched. Thankfully, in that case, I was able to provide documentation that I was not a match, but it is incredibly frustrating to have false positives and no "this is positive but it is obviously a partially incorrect match. In the OP's hypothetical about a pre-screening background check, you might never get the opportunity to clear your name.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by projektfu »

altmanaltman wrote: post #23
kazinator wrote: post #4

You can't seriously match people on first and last name and claim "fully matched". Think of how manny John Smiths there are? How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ...

> How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ... The same Jobs that routinely denied publicly that he was the parent of his daughter, even though he knew? The same Jobs that cheated Wozniak financially? The same Jobs that led to a change in legal legislation on how organ transplants work? The world needs to move on from this marketing bs that he was somehow a "great" man who is morally solid and must be…

TBF, the company of Wozniak would have a way around the App Store restrictions, so it's obviously not that anymore. Probably hasn't been since Sculley.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by projektfu »

zhivota wrote: post #3

Honestly the best thing to do might be to change your name at this point. I'm glad my name is not common, this kind of issue is going to only get worse in the future.

In Ireland you can use the Gaelic spelling and probably get away with it. Poof, no matches for Seán Ó Beirn.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by anon7000 »

> Asked about it, the head of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center said Robert Johnson would never get off the list, and that anyone with the name would be inconvenienced every time they tried to check in.

(Said person was already in prison.)

So essentially, the federal government and three letter agencies are propagating the crime. The original person did something which presumably violated other people’s rights. Now the federal government continues to violate people’s rights by essentially lying about who’s actually a threat.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by JSR_FDED »

fairlyaday wrote: post #112
larsnystrom wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. As you said, Ireland might comply, which would’ve solved this particular issue.

The courts obviously never had an id document for the US to find. Is the US going to omit all partial identities to avoid false positives or is Ireland going to illegally investigate lists for the US from extra judicial processes that likely involve non-extraditable crimes? Will the US believe every country that says these investigations found no real citizen? Not bending to the US might be less convenient at times b…

Testing a new Markov chain? What is this incoherent drivel?

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by andai »

praptak wrote: post #25
areoform wrote: post #2

Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded... Mercury unblocked my accounts because their founder is a very kind man who bothered to verify what the document actually says rather than falling back to, "Computer says no." But everywhere else? De nada. Computer says no. And it's not even me. It's a fuzzy match with someone in their…

Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".

"Encourage your adversary to do more of the thing they've been pushing for half a century."
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