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He's clearly insanely paranoid about personal information, but that does sound like a terrible puzzle.
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Isis was an Egyptian goddess before her name got coopted by a terrorist group.
It's not like the terrorist group choose that name. They choose to call themselves Daesh. ISIS was a term coined by Western miliary and/or media.
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I believe it came out when Al Qaeda was the boogey man. ISIS didn't get any press until 2013: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=i...
The Pentagon didn't start calling it the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) until 2017. Prior to then, it was the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Worth noting that the Islamic State has preferred being called ISIS. I think calling them ISIL was being done in part to annoy them.
Wikipedia goes into all this in detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Islamic_State_of_...
The comments on that post are particularly interesting.
WTF.
Let's not hyperventilate too much; on any given weekend you can find people who hover around the poverty line spending hundreds of dollars on "toys", although those toys will probably continue to provide value and enjoyment significantly longer than this dumb puzzle.
Also, I would hardly consider the Great Depression to be out of "living memory", and are we still going to say we're "in the middle of" a huge economic downturn in 2028 just to support whatever histrionic point we need to make that day?
Edit: Either the (2009) wasn't in the title when I first clicked, or I just missed the damn thing. Thanks for pointing that out, Shaanie
He's clearly insanely paranoid about personal information, but that does sound like a terrible puzzle.
Maybe he is paranoid, but it is his information, so he has every right to be! If only more people are like him, we wouldn't have all these multi billion dollar companies doing whatever they feel like with their users' info
> And they know something much more important: every one of these people was affluent enough (or knew someone affluent enough) to spend a three-digit sum on a puzzle in the middle of the worst economic downturn in living memory. Let's not hyperventilate too much; on any given weekend you can find people who hover around the poverty line spending hundreds of dollars on "toys", although those toys will probably continu…
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Maybe he is paranoid, but it is his information, so he has every right to be! If only more people are like him, we wouldn't have all these multi billion dollar companies doing whatever they feel like with their users' info
Sure, but why not just create a fake persona and call it a day. Transient email address, fake name, google voice phone number, done...
If you read the article, you will see that the author did exactly that.
The comments on that post are particularly interesting.
Like the first one comparing the puzzles registration flow to the holocaust? WTF.
Puzzle companies need a lot of trust from their customers for hobbyists to buy them and spend hours working on them. To solve this problem, is there a community review site for puzzles without spoilers? Solvers would want to avoid Googling around, since the solution could accidentally be revealed, making the $200 purchase worthless.