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It's not anonymous enough. I pointed out that this fact was buried in a story a while ago on HN [1]; it had a grand total of 6 upvotes and mine was the only co
by csense 13y ago
It's not anonymous enough. I pointed out that this fact was buried in a story a while ago on HN [1]; it had a grand total of 6 upvotes and mine was the only comment.
Moral: The best content doesn't always stay on the front page for any length of time, you should check out /newest once in a while too.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609470
- thaumasiotes 13y agoI saw that; I was aware that such data could be fairly reliably deanonymized. But with a country norm where zip codes frequently contain 10 people, who would ever imagine that just zip, with birthday / sex stripped, would be even slightly anonymous?