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I'll add another to that list: -- People will never have a physical mailing address that contains "funny" numbers like "000", "420", "69420", or "80085".

dukeyukey 3y ago
Or that some towns may have... unusual substrings (Scunthorpe, Shitterton, Fingringhoe, and the ever-famous Fucking in Austria, now renamed to Fugging).
margalabargala 3y ago
I used to live in Baltimore, where there are numbered streets that include ½ symbol streets, and worse, house numbers including ½ numbered houses.
- MerelyMortal 3y ago
  I believe Galveston, TX has lettered half streets, example: 123 A ½ St
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- ProllyInfamous 3y ago
  How does one enter "½" into a webform?
dghlsakjg 3y ago
I once had a friend that lived at, no shit, 1337 High.
lisper 3y ago
What’s funny about 420?
- dr_kiszonka 3y ago
  Look up 4/20.
  - lisper 3y ago
    Ah. Well, that's pretty stupid. Are you going to rule out 911 and 666 and 13 too? (Not directed at you personally, it's a rhetorical question.)
  - chowells 3y ago
    Uh, no. Look up 4:20. The funny number is the time, not the date.
    - dr_kiszonka 3y ago
      Oh! Just shows you how little I know about this stuff. Thanks!
dehrmann 3y ago
I used to work in a building in SF where the address was either 123 Main St. or 123 Mission St. Someone in sales had an issue giving that address to a cab driver, IIRC. Amusingly, the company did (and still does) ML for fraud detection.
donmcronald 3y ago
-- No one was born on 4/20/69 -- Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins for mobile phone accounts
- ProllyInfamous 3y ago
  >Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins I have now closed three remote banking accounts (i.e. no nearby physical locations), after they began requiring 2FA via SMS [which I do not participate/allow/text]. My most-recent bank is literally down the street from me so I can walk over when 2FA becomes ubiquitous. Such an annoying "feature".

dukeyukey 3y ago

Or that some towns may have... unusual substrings (Scunthorpe, Shitterton, Fingringhoe, and the ever-famous Fucking in Austria, now renamed to Fugging).

margalabargala 3y ago

I used to live in Baltimore, where there are numbered streets that include ½ symbol streets, and worse, house numbers including ½ numbered houses.

MerelyMortal 3y ago
I believe Galveston, TX has lettered half streets, example: 123 A ½ St
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ProllyInfamous 3y ago
How does one enter "½" into a webform?

dghlsakjg 3y ago

I once had a friend that lived at, no shit, 1337 High.

lisper 3y ago

What’s funny about 420?

dr_kiszonka 3y ago
Look up 4/20.
- lisper 3y ago
  Ah. Well, that's pretty stupid. Are you going to rule out 911 and 666 and 13 too? (Not directed at you personally, it's a rhetorical question.)
- chowells 3y ago
  Uh, no. Look up 4:20. The funny number is the time, not the date.
  - dr_kiszonka 3y ago
    Oh! Just shows you how little I know about this stuff. Thanks!

dehrmann 3y ago

I used to work in a building in SF where the address was either 123 Main St. or 123 Mission St. Someone in sales had an issue giving that address to a cab driver, IIRC. Amusingly, the company did (and still does) ML for fraud detection.

donmcronald 3y ago

-- No one was born on 4/20/69 -- Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins for mobile phone accounts

ProllyInfamous 3y ago
>Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins I have now closed three remote banking accounts (i.e. no nearby physical locations), after they began requiring 2FA via SMS [which I do not participate/allow/text]. My most-recent bank is literally down the street from me so I can walk over when 2FA becomes ubiquitous. Such an annoying "feature".