See the post on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/provisionalidea.bsky.social/post/3lhujtm2qkc2i
According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Nah, they are supposed to be unique. If it was that it'd at least be a design choice potentially worthy of criticism. But consider, who's more likely to have fucked up a database task: Musk? Or the designer, someone with a degree (a real degree) on this topic?
Don't worry: since he's so big on transparency, I'm sure he'll release the schema so we can check his work... ๐
It seems inevitable that we'd have some duplicates by now... with 330 million people alive in the US today, and SSNs starting out in 1936, there's no way everyone could have a unique number; especially with the consideration of the first 3 digits of the code correlating to place of residence at time of requesting a SSN.
With the way things are going, let's say there will be lots of people checking out a lot more than just the database schema...