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Oh dear. 2 hours in and all the comments appear to me to be the kinds of politically trolling that we typically try to avoid on hacker news. The story is about technology and statistics and what the future of data mining might mean for democracy, folks.. can we keep the name calling to a minimum please?

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There was already a massive topic about this story yesterday. I don't see what a new one accomplishes except exhausting HN's moderation team.

In fairness, everything is political, including notions of “technology” and especially statistics. See Lombroso and gerrymandering respectively.

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