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Transcript4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: A doctor lifts up a healthy baby in front of a tired mom

Doctor: Welcome to the world, little guy!

Panel 2: The doctor holds the child up in front of a tablet

Doctor: You need to create a life account

Panel 3: The baby is frustrated as the tablet rejects the input

Tablet: Sorry, that username is taken

Panel 4: The baby facepalms as the tablet needs even more info to create the account

Tablet: You need to make an email account for Two-Factor Authentication

Secret Panel: The baby sweats as the tablet continues

Tablet: Enjoy your 30 day trial of life. After-which, there is a monthly charge.

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago* (2 children)

Are you being obtuse on purpose? Nothing is supposed to change about everyday use of names. This is to make indexing easier by allowing records to be easily searched by formal legal name and birth year, information that is always available and always known to the person whose records are being found.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I am not being obtuse. There are tons of cultures not following your name schema. It makes people moving from one country to another a pain in the ass.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Yeah, and I am a member of one of those other cultures. I maintain my position that you are talking about an overblown problem. And if it becomes a problem, they can pick a fourth name to distinguish it. Immigrants making modifications to their names when they arrive in a new country is not a new phenomenon, and the overwhelming majority of them will not have to make any modifications as well.

    Here's a better attack line for you to adopt, since your previous one was bad: How would the proposed system deal with people who had non-unique names before the system was implemented? That is something that would be far more disruptive.

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