This is why we should replace names with uuids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number...
which superseded the JMBG
- 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.
Given the number is countries that already have those and those that attempt it every few years... I'd say it's not correct.
For spies, you just issue multiple identities - the origin country shouldn't have any issues with that part. It already happened for witness protection level stuff.
For voting... yeah, that's a citation needed. Politicians mostly worry about foreigners coming to vote.
Also, a lot of countries do have IDs...
Ordering the world population by birthday becomes so easy. Plus no endless discussion on wether or not we should use UUID as primary key.
[*] trustful, yes, that is a hard nut to crack! Who can be trusted with physical address and for what purpose, but in some sense it may be better for its controlled nature rather than the wild west of postal address world that we live in.
In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg, give me all your data".
(I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)
Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.
On second thought, I think the Japanese say "piza", so we're back to a unary sequence now. I call dibs on Papa¹
I suspect when they are old enough to change their names, they will. For example, Wavy Gravy's son changed his name back to a normal family name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy#Personal_life
99ad and e128 in this case.
with Session( engine ) as session:
youngest_ids_subq = (
select( func.max( People.id ).label( "max_id" ) )
.group_by( People.name )
.subquery()
)
purge_stmt = (
delete( People )
.where( People.id.not_in( select( youngest_ids_subq.c.max_id ) ) )
)
session.execute( purge_stmt )
session.commit()
unique_idx = Index( "uq_people_name", People.name, unique=True )
unique_idx.create(bind=engine)Your version of the Purge would make an interesting Stephen King movie.
Just hand out IDs with an actual unique id number with a check digit to _all_ citizens.
If we colonise the galaxy we could increase that to seven letters.
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.
I believe the civilian should be able to create identities based on their private key (which only the government knows) and these should have different details. Like for example, a nickname, a realname, a telephone number, and address, or multiple of these. But then, also the civilian should be able to revoke the licenses. Or, rather: they should be valid for a short amount of time.
Nice try, so you tell me that the burger hospital I passed by is not in fact a place where they patch up burgers until they’re back on their feet?
A lot of countries have a unique ID for their citizens which is used for routine identification. On websites, at the bank, etc. nothing special about SSNs in this regard, except that they were leaked more times than you can count.
That's not that special either. Plenty of countries make their numbers de jure public information.
The most special thing about the SSN is that the cards say (or said) not for identification, and then they're used for exactly that.
That's the difference. A lot of people and processes in the US make the assumption that the SSN is a well kept secret despite them being publicly leaked so many times. This assumption is a weakness for any process that relies on "secret" SSNs.
I just realised this is probably the German etymological branch of "burgoise".
The divide (or perception of a divide) between city dwellers and the country is not something the US invented, these divisions predate the colonisation of America.
What? Why?
How is a key private if the government (which belongs to the public) can read/edit/use it?
This is why we can’t have nice things.
You get to be Bob192382, because you got in early and only had to add 6 numeric digits. In the year 2100, we're at 15 digits.
A billion (-1) is only 9 digits, even with only one "name" that would likely be sufficient, or 10 maybe digits at the absolute extreme.
See the username efforts of tech companies like Discord, etc.