Huh. That's way less likely than I assumed!

I think I was getting confused by how frequent collisions are in a hash-table. But those aren't actually hash collisions, they're hash-table entry collisions. So it makes sense that the likelihood of collisions is orders of magnitude smaller than I was thinking - the number of entries in any given hash-table is unfathomably tiny compared to the number of possible permutations that a reasonably-sized hash can have.

The issue that I see is that DNA isn't necessarily unique. For example, identical twins and species that were born asexually can have identical DNA. I don't really know any biology, so maybe there are other considerations too?

~~Also, hash collisions would happen randomly sometimes, so even if every individual had unique DNA, you couldn't use them as a unique identifier since there would sometimes be collisions.~~

Hope that helps.

Edit: I was wrong about hash collisions. Also, removed last paragraph because I was repeating myself.

Allowing Elon Musk to run a company is like electing a kid who thinks the government should give everyone free icecream and make crime ok on Thursdays.

Someone needs to find him a role where he can feel like he's helping without getting in everyone else's way.

I'm not 100% sure but I think threadiverse means the part of the fediverse that has Reddit-like threads, e.g. Kbin, Lemmy, etc.