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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by yathern on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:51PM (#17943243)
This is another abuse of pre-packaged logic which I see regularly. Occam's razor dictates that when there are competing hypotheses - the one that makes the least number of assumptions tends to be true.

This doesn't mean "automatically assume the simplest explanation is gospel truth, and if someone suggests otherwise, simply say the magic words 'Occams Razor' to them".

Maybe this occurred. Maybe it didn't. But dismissing it with what's essentially a prepackaged argument adds very little to the conversation.

If I were to leak info, I certainly would try to hide my way of writing. Not sure how to do it effectively. Possibly run it through Google translate and back a few times. Then patch it up to make it readable?

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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by tomjakubowski on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:55PM (#17943259)
It seems easier, although maybe riskier, to have a trusted friend (or even your attorney) ghostwrite it for you. That would also avoid reintroducing your idiosyncrasies during the "patch it up" step.
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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by learc83 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @08:58PM (#17943699)
If it were me, I'd make an outline and have my spouse write it (assuming I had a good relationship with my spouse).
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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by contravariant on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:07PM (#17943918)
Another obvious choice would be someone at the New York Times. Even if we could figure out who then all we'd have discovered is dubious proof on someone who might know the identity of the source, which isn't terribly useful.
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