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Comment by edent

It isn't. Unless you want a long incomprehensible string.

Someone is always going to want a short, unique, and memorable name. And when two people share the same name (McDonald, Nissan, etc) there needs to be a way to disambiguate them.

If people die and are unable to release a desirable name, that just makes the whole system less desirable.

I know one of the canonical hard problems in Computer Science is "naming things" and this is a prime example!

parent edent 2 years ago

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