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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 41 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (15 children)

Also a lot of people between 110 and 150, so I'm sure there is a larger answer.

However, Social Security cuts off at 115, and they supposedly found like 10 million people older than that. Considering there are only ~50m people on Social Security, and the database they were searching wasn't even about current recipients, most people would conclude that there is likely an error in data, rather than immediately jump to fraud. Of course, ketamine is a hell of a drug and Elon is not most people.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

It's definitely still concerning if the database has a large number of errors. But systematic fraud would be much worse ofc.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 21 hours ago (10 children)

the database doesn't have to necessarily be accurate if there's other checks - a flag for test data, a system that checks the person is real against another database before dispersing funds etc

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago

It's really funny to me that everyone thinks every database is always 100% correct. What a magical world it would be!

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