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Identifying a person from "anonymous" location data: Four points is enough 95% of the time.

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I looked at the comments at all three places and found that the comments were restricted to two major themes:

What a great kid Wendell is and how we should all raise our kids like him.
What terrible little shits the cat-torturers were, complete with condemnation of a society that lets this behavior flourish.

Missing from the discussion: Wondering if the cat was asking for it by being so cute and easy to torture.

- Amanda Marcotte, "If Only We Could Talk About Abusing Women Like We Do Abusing Cats"