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And I had a teacher in college who had a standing bet that he would pay out to anyone who was able to find someone else with his name, anywhere in the world, ho
by jon-wood 6y ago
And I had a teacher in college who had a standing bet that he would pay out to anyone who was able to find someone else with his name, anywhere in the world, however I remember that because it’s highly unusual. Most people are going to have at least one doppelgänger somewhere.
- berkes 6y agoI'm sure that somewhere in the world, the value in that bet is enough for a person to decide to change their name and then collect it. Or for an official to slip in a birth record with that name and collect it. The point: names are not unique, because there is a) no statistic guarantee (like UUIDv4s) and b) no uniqueness validation. So even if by chance you fall in an exceptional outlier of a), you cannot be sure of b)