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Post by trogdor »

squigz wrote: post #179
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, but the number of "influencers," even making six digits, is small. A couple months ago, I was at a stoplight, and this kid in an old beater was in the left-turn lane, to my left. He had a steadycam rig in the passenger seat, and was nattering on about something.

We would need to define "famous", because just because someone has a steady cam doesn't mean they're famous :P I would think the amount of "famous" "influencers" making that much is a much higher percentage. Outside of that Twitch leak some years ago, is there any reliable data on how much content creators make?

I used to be a full-time YouTuber, and I was very successful. For my channels, the revenue estimates on Socialblade were accurate. Reality for me tended toward their high estimate.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by sandspar »

coltnz wrote: post #368

I rue the day (in 2004/5?) I got my name as my gmail address. My first name is not rare and my surname very common. Since then I've collected an eclectic group of homonyms who I just can't get out my inbox. The list includes: the retired English nurse who races remote control yachts and never pays his telco bill, the South African gold miner whose best new spots I am privy too, the NZ sports shop chain owner with a l…

You must have the most English name imaginable!

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by DiscourseFan »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #107
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…

With the Internet, you can now be famous, without being rich. Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.

>Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous

Are you trying to tell me that there are people out there worth more than Elon Musk who are not throwing money at political campaigns, funding mass projects or cultural pursuits? Because, yes, its possible for someone who is worth say, half a billion or even up to maybe 10 billion dollars or so to stay out of public life, but at a certain degree of wealth that wealth becomes institutional and closely tied to political power, so it becomes functionally impossible to remain fully anonymous. What state, what government would allow a private citizen worth so much money to go untaxed, without that person somehow being tied to the government? Or are you saying that the state, which commands use of force and violence, would not use that force to extract wealth from those who are not apart, directly, of its apparatus?

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Post by andsoitis »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #17

Having the same name as a famous person seems like a decent marketing benefit. And funnily enough, that’s achievable with some paperwork in many areas of the world! I wonder how/if this interacts with trademark (or other?) law. Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?

> Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?

Yes, you can. But it’d be stupid.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by catoc »

eru wrote: post #418
catoc wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, I’d never use Gmail for anything sensitive. Even for just personal emails I use my own mailserver. (And again, for truly sensitive stuff I don’t use email at all)

If the sender is using GMail, then using your own mail server is less secure than using GMail as the receiver.

Sure even though, as most others, my server supports TLS, having your email not leave gmail at all may be slightly more secure. Part of the point however was that when either server or receiver is using Gmail, your possibly confidential email content is still in Google’s hands. Using a personal server reduces that part of the attack surface. Still this does not mean I vacate my overall point that email in general is suboptimal from a secop standpoint.

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Post by KiwiJohnno »

cootsnuck wrote: post #251
zukzuk wrote: post #166

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I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…

Yea I own first.last@gmail.com for my name too and I get emails for who I think is the same person fairly often. Like job stuff, professional education emails, etc. I used to reply to them saying wrong person but have given up...the guy must not care about not getting these emails... My first name is very uncommon and my last name is very common.

I'm in the same boat, except my first and last name are fairly common. My gmail account is not my primary email address, and to be honest I don't know if I could manage making it my primary because of the amount of rubbish I get.

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Post by deanishe »

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…

We had a board member who frequently emailed confidential documents to a security guard with the same name as another director.

It was his iPad's fault, apparently.

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Post by ncr100 »

Freak_NL wrote: post #81
ncr100 wrote: post #34

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It's unjust.

Sure, but if tomorrow some dude with the same name as me decides to go on a killing spree, or sexually assault a toddler, I'd change my name. Just or unjust. I'd have to change my email domain too though, so that would suck, but at least I could put up a website there explaining my new name and that I am not the now world famous terrorist who shot up a kindergarden/fondled the pope/ate a baby.

I see - that would suck.

"You're not related to THE Adolf Hitler .. (I hope?)" -hypothetical conversation

[pope fondling - just getting closer to God]

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Post by simulator5g »

jspash wrote: post #286
donohoe wrote: post #208

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I use my lastname [at] gmail (same as my HN username). Over the years, I’ve received all sorts of misdirected messages: medical, financial, support, even real estate documents. When it seems important, I do my best to contact the sender and let them know. What I’ve learned is that “no-reply” email addresses can cause real harm in situations where it’s critical to reach an actual person.

I have lastname.firstname@gmail.com because first.last was already taken. Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the other one? Or does it forever belong to my nemesis and life-long enemy?

You can never make another account with that address because Google does not delete things.
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