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> what if we had a restaurant named China Wok in Springfield, USA? Hardly unique. Add the state, you say? Probably still not unique. Ok sure, but then you hav
by d--b 2y ago
> what if we had a restaurant named China Wok in Springfield, USA? Hardly unique. Add the state, you say? Probably still not unique.
Ok sure, but then you have 2 restaurants which are indistinguishable from one another in your database. It doesn't matter that the thing has a unique id next to it. You can't know which is which. That's not useful.