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> You're paranoid-delusional, and engaging in cargo-cult spycraft where your education seems to be mostly centered around watching hollywood "lone wolf, former spy / contract killer trying to stay off the radar" type movies.

> you're nowhere near as interesting or important as you seem to think you are.

You actually had some decent points; are the aggressive personal attacks really necessary?

Or as the site guidelines put it,

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."




Fine, I'll try to dial it back.

Also: telling someone they're not remotely as interesting as they think they are is not an insult, it's a factual statement that nobody who engages in the sort of tracking OP is worried about, would be interested in tracking the vast, vast vast majority of us. But since you're quoting the rule book, I'll qualify it.


It's certainly an insult. Stating facts (let's assume you're right about that) can still be insults. Imagine telling a middle schooler all about about the acne on their face.

p.s. I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34606566 before seeing this subthread; I didn't mean to pile on. But yes, please dial it back. You've broken the site guidelines a great deal and I don't want to ban you.




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