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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you die your social is reused and assigned to someone else eventually. This is what makes it not unique. If something were to screw up in the process the new person could have debt from the prior person for example even though it is not their debt. Another concept common is using the last 4. There are so many conflicts when using just last 4 in a database its bad design.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

When you die your social is reused and assigned to someone else eventually.

This is not true, but often repeated. From SSA