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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by skopje »

firtoz wrote: post #74

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.

moslem naming is also not very different sometimes. lots of duplicate names like ahmed ahmed and mohammad mohammad. must be very frustrating! (it would be interesting to know how they manage it, since i do not know any of them personally.)

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by nullc »

Lerc wrote: post #277
piker wrote: post #45

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…

It's something to remember when considering the reactions and attitudes of extremely high profile people. If you've ever felt bad because of a shitty comment posted by someone you don't know, you have just a fraction of what some people have to endure. Even when you know the comments are unreasonable and 'haters gonna hate' there's still some damage done. High profile figures may appear distant, callous, or even full…

At times I'm mused that man is perhaps calibrated to live in tribes of 100. If you're known to ten million, however, you can get the 100,000x the correct dosage for whatever attention your actions draw.

Hard to fix, -- since even if people were considerate enough to make a tenfold reduction you'd still be overdosed by 10,000x.

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Post by alex1138 »

piker wrote: post #45

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…

Like for example how Facebook search results and graph search seem to encompass an ever enlargening circle of Friends Of Friends (and if not just reset the privacy settings to public anyway)

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Post by antidamage »

torben-friis wrote: post #168
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…

My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Thankfully these people were working mostly through physical meetings and calls, so no sensitive info was leaked, but I did get calendar invites to discuss the future of entire countries as an engineering intern. I used the name a couple times to set up our internal meetings in the fancier u…

My deadname was not only owned by some other people in my industry, it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating.

Glad to see that after five years post abandoning it my contribution to the name is basically gone from the internet now.

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Post by missedthecue »

citizenkeen wrote: post #235
bonzini wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have myname.wifename@gmail.com (we use it for bills, children activities, and other family stuff where you can't register more than one email address). Neither of our names can be confused with a last name and yet I had multiple people writing to it incorrectly, including: as the email attached to a Diners credit card (I called Diners and they asked me what's the right one and "if I don't know the right one how do…

Your use case is why I bought my own domain name. My wife and I create shared aliases we can both send from. It’s made spousal ensuing with schools so much easier, etc.

I've noticed a lot of sites and orgs wont accept email domains that aren't gmail, hotmail, outlook, icloud, or yahoo.

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Post by gambiting »

antidamage wrote: post #387
torben-friis wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Thankfully these people were working mostly through physical meetings and calls, so no sensitive info was leaked, but I did get calendar invites to discuss the future of entire countries as an engineering intern. I used the name a couple times to set up our internal meetings in the fancier u…

My deadname was not only owned by some other people in my industry, it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating. Glad to see that after five years post abandoning it my contribution to the name is basically gone from the internet now.

>>it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating

How so? Other than a funny coincidence, how would that ever come up anywhere in anything unless you both lived in a tiny community where everyone knows each other. I just don't understand how someone born on the same day as you having the same name was "irritating".

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by foobarchu »

multjoy wrote: post #362
kid64 wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obtaining something of value through deception is fraud.

The key term in most statutes is dishonesty. Impersonating someone at their behest as a favour is unlikely to be dishonest.

That's debatable. If I let my friends impersonate me to use my zoo membership for free entrance, then were clearly defrauding the zoo (obviously that's not high stakes, but I dare someone to argue it's not). If one of a set of identical twins is better at math and takes all the math tests for their sibling, that's pretty clearly academic fraud, again pretty low stakes but fraud is still fraud

Key note because in case someone decides to go bad faith here, I think the gp comments use case of fraud is a positive thing (if a bit dangerous). Redefining a term just because you don't like the pejorative implications is not a positive thing, though.

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