Which is not the same thing at all, so it proves nothing.

> so it proves nothing.

Which, unfortunately, does not matter. You don't win arguments with proof, you win with persuasion.

Proofs are but one tool that can be used to persuade the other party, but if the proofs are not clear and quick, usually the other side will feel they are right - "they have won the argument"

On the other hand, a quote like this may well be persuasive to many, and they will feel you are right - "you have won".

This is not "the ends justify the means" - this is understanding how people argue.

There are those that argue on a purely intellectual level; Richard Feynman describes such a conversation with Einstein Oppenheimer and Bohr. But that was noteworthy enough for him to recall it twenty years later!

Hmm, didn’t Feynman have eidetic memory anyway?

I don't think so—I've read several of his books and it was never mentioned; neither his Wiki page nor the first several results for googling "feynman eidetic memory" support the claim. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_poss... , on which he is not.

Thank you. Obviously, I’m not on this Wikipedia list. :D

Not the same thing: you're a person they know, so it's privacy. Facebook, Google, 3 letter agencies do that invisibly.

The better way is to put that info on some private forums where some strangers will discuss it, since it's private by the same definition that's privacy.

Sounds like /r/relationship_advice on reddit or any of the many forums where people do post anonymized questions or stories.

Although “tracking” for ads is far less invasive than even that, the only particularly annoying thing is when it bugs out and shows you ads for stuff you just purchased and no longer need, it would be nice if they could track a little better and know once you’ve bought something.