Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
by Too on Saturday June 10, 2017 @12:40PM
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Another good food for thought regarding identity: If you take a complex object like a jumbo jet and replace every single component in it one after another, at the end, is it still the same jumbo jet?
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Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
by Koshkin on Saturday June 10, 2017 @02:19PM
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Less hypothetically, most of the atoms in a complex living organism are replaced every few months. (One objection could be that atoms of the same sort are all identical, but that makes the issue of 'identity' even more complex.)