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Why is everyone ignoring the obvious solution. The childs name is just the hash of the two parents names plus the birthday timestamp. This would resolve any in
by IIAOPSW 8y ago
Why is everyone ignoring the obvious solution.
The childs name is just the hash of the two parents names plus the birthday timestamp. This would resolve any infidelity questions.
In all seriousness I have a different strategy. Pick an "A" name. Many lists are sorted alphabetically and at the grade school level its often by first name. As trivial as it may seem, having your name appear first on a list feels like you "won". Might even be enough to give my (currently hypothetical) kids some slight advantage. Aaron and Abbey are optimal.
- wincy 8y agoAh yes my dear “F0D76E4270E41C4E3DBAAD6947647DB3EDFDF3F35623133880A429DE8E749AA6”. So cute! Just rolls off the tongue. My daughter has a pretty uncommon name, and I was reading an NPR article and realized the journalist had given her daughter (who is the same age as ours!) the same name. You just can’t win. If you want to build character, learn some patience, you should name your kids Zaden and Zelda, right?
- shpx 8y agoYou'd use a pronounceable encoding scheme like proquints[0] so your child would be called Zagil-kunaf-lagoh-dudav-gukup-pujon-hitoh-lukug-vulut-zazug-batip-bikop-mafoh-foliv-munuh-nopok. You must be pretty optimistic about humanity's future if you're using a 256 bit hash. Just "Zagil-kunaf-lagoh-dudav" ought to be enough for anybody. [0] https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016 https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016
- Moru 8y agoMost name lists I saw was sorted on family name, not first name. But I guess that is country specific, just like some write dates as YYYY-mm-dd instead of the day first... Just makes sorting a list that little bit more logical :-) Everything that happened the first january I want in that pile, after that we take second january and so on. You want the news for fifth march 1884? Sure thing, just look thru that pile with everything that happened the fifth march!
- IIAOPSW 8y agoI distinctly remember things being sorted by first name way back in the "you're still learning the alphabet" grades (probably 1st grade). Likely to avoid confusing us since we call each other by first name. Its possible your school didn't do it or its possible you don't remember.
- aplc0r 8y agoWe were also usually listed by last name in my grade school. I remember that, because I have a last name starting with a "W". Every once in a while for things like waiting in line or taking turns in an activity, the teacher would flip it to reverse alphabetical. I remember that always feeling pretty great.
- dagw 8y agoThe childs name is just the hash of the two parents names plus the birthday timestamp. I like it. However it's probably better to use DNA sequencing instead of names to avoid too much ambiguity. Maybe we could use some sort of blockchain solution to unambiguously keep track of which kids belong to which parents and which order they arrived in.
- stevekemp 8y ago> probably better to use DNA sequencing instead of names to avoid too much ambiguity What happens when you have identical twins?
- kwhitefoot 8y agoOr just use the Pravic solution, suitably modified for a large population (see http://zrajm.org/nerd/pravic/ http://zrajm.org/nerd/pravic/).
- madcaptenor 8y agoMy wife's last name starts with an A, mine with an L. Our daughter is A-L; my wife joked that she wanted to give the baby "alphabet privilege".
- mrkgnao 8y agoIt is a thing, and there's evidence for it in certain academic fields. [0] studies this effect in economics, and this would be reason to expect similar things in other fields like maths, CS, and physics where alphabetical surname order on research papers is standard. Modulo a lot of context, replicability issues, and the like (and of course career choices), there's a chance you actually are doing your daughter a tangible favour this way. :) > Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize. > These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology. [0]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/089533006776526085 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/08953300677652608..., "What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success"