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humans should come with a big UUID that is generated at a central database to keep out duplicate and then just a name without any last name for social connections. this would also solve discrimination on many levels. would be a nightmare for privacy and tracking but we are all being tracked anyway.

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Interesting idea, but the point of uuid is to not be centralised, otherwise you'd just use a serial number.

So if we assume everyone is born in a room with an address everyone could have a uuid like xxxx-yyyy-zzzz where xxxx is the postcode/zip code of the address, yyyy is the room number (only needs to be unique at the address) and zzzz is the time (only needs to be unique in the room, so local time is fine). This is similar to the uuid v1 scheme.

the CIA/NSA wet dream... We're not supposed to make it easier for them to control and target us...

I highly doubt that the lack of a unique identifier hampers their ability to track us.

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