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Please continue up the line to find the context. The grandparent does not have his sim card .
> The grandparent does not have his sim card. which is not necessary for transferring your number to a new SIM. when you lose your phone here, you don't lose your number.
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You will eventually be forced to re-add it at some point. The point is (it's not my account) that unless you religiously update the phone number in all your accounts you will at some point lose access to some of them despite being able to prove with all the other details it's you who created and used them. Just because. Because phone number is a very valuable identifier for the ad company.
I don't think you will be forced. I removed it long ago, and still don't have it.
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It hails from when family lines were important, and you can practically only have one line reflected in a name. Unsurprisingly, most societies considered the male's name to be the dominate lineage of interest, although that doesn't hold true 100% of the time.
> you can practically only have one line reflected in a name Not true at all. You can trivially have two family names in a full legal name. In fact many cultures do exactly that to this day. Also worth noting that the male's name being preferentially propagated makes a lot of sense in a society where the best off frequently inherited their vocation from their fathers.
Keyword being "practically". Just because there is an alternative doesn't mean society will adjust.
And hyphenation isn't a solution, it only works for one generation.
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> you can practically only have one line reflected in a name Not true at all. You can trivially have two family names in a full legal name. In fact many cultures do exactly that to this day. Also worth noting that the male's name being preferentially propagated makes a lot of sense in a society where the best off frequently inherited their vocation from their fathers.
What societies? Keyword being "practically". Just because there is an alternative doesn't mean society will adjust. And hyphenation isn't a solution, it only works for one generation.
"It isn't practical to do" and "society at large didn't go this direction" are very different statements.
Hyphenation is two names in a trench coat. Maintaining two names indefinitely works just fine as long as you discard rather than endlessly compound. Presumably the only requirement is that it be straightforward to trace any given lineage.
The traditional approach is for women to keep their maternal name and discard their paternal name on marriage while men do the opposite. But of course any scheme could work, up to and including each person arbitrarily choosing which name to discard (not sure how they decide on ordering in that case).
Another historical approach is the Foo Barson, Baz Fooson (Barson) approach. That scheme treats the male and female lines as being entirely separate so it doesn't quite match what you're after but it was quite practical.
Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.
As a hiring manager, I just want to give you a heads up that we are getting tons of fake applicants—like 5–10%—that end up being a real person on a video chat isn’t some AI assistant that uses a teleprompter interface to tell them what to say. Usually by that point you catch them, but your recruiter screen might not etc. So now all the main HR tools are using “age of email” as one possible signal to detect fraud. I’m…
(It’s too late to amend my comment)
Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.
I have a first.last email, but it's created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he's been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google's documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I'm guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how…