Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by clairity on Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:12PM
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> “As an aside though, cultures that use the same name for multiple people in the same family confuse me.”
i’d wager their desire for affiliation is stronger than their desire for differentiation. individualism isn’t as valued in many cultures.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by chipsa on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:13PM
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SSNs are not (yet) reused. There's ~900 million potential SSNs, we've run through half, and are using ~5.5 million a year, which gives us at least another half a century before we have to start reusing.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by Spooky23 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:27PM
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There are all sorts of reasons.
In some Irish families (mostly older people now), people had a Gaelic derived name and a legal English name, because the authorities banished Gaelic names. When you do genealogy, it’s very difficult to track people in certain circumstances as spellings and references change.
But when designing automated systems, you can't add in a condition of "unless person doesn't look their age". If one can't use names as a unique identifier, then that leaves a number issued at birth by a central government. But as I understand, even SSNs aren't unique and get re-used.
As an aside though, cultures that use the same name for multiple people in the same family confuse me. To me, the purpose of a name is to identify, so what is the point of naming someone the same? Perhaps, historically, it was a way to establish credibility before the time of credit reports and phones.