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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by coldtea on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:47AM (#12641792)
>The problem is that language is much higher bandwidth than the information content of the words. Context and implicit shared knowledge play a huge part and should be taken into account when assessing someone's words.

But not when assuming they are Rand's followers?

Because you criticized the parent poster exactly for making such an assumption (whether he made it or not)...

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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by crdb on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:23AM (#12641899)
> Because you criticized the parent poster exactly for making such an assumption (whether he made it or not)...

I go on quite at length as to why I believe that he did. Feel free to disagree with me, so long as you explain why.

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