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Locus of Improbability
High Priestess of Church of the Easily Amused
Polymath
Math is hard!
April 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
... My friend learned the truth when he was a teenager & tried to use SSN for a job. This is one of many reasons why nobody uses SSN as a primary key in a database, & why you should never allow anyone to use your SSN as an identitifier, and never even see it (limited exceptions, e.g. your employer).
March 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
SSNs have been assigned to multiple people by mistake, but it usually is cleared up eventually. I know someone with a fairly common name, and there was another person with the same first name, middle initial, and last name, born on the same day in the same city, but different hospitals. ...
March 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM