[nbaksalyar]

I don't get your point. Why generalize over 140M people with your assumptions about illegal software usage and "thieve laws" in Russia in the topic about reverse engineering the Skype client? How does it even relate to Russia?

[semi-extrinsic]

Generalizations are useful, because they allow us to efficiently reason about the world. Eschewing them because of the content-free statement that "everyone is unique" leads us to a worse, not better, situation. Of course, this does not mean we should allow blatant racism, but in the real world it is useful to say things that are true but not necessarily nice.

Or, if you want, you can stay in Katie-land:

https://youtu.be/b47wP_yMCf4

[EugeneOZ]

My reply was to comment about hacking culture. And it's not "assumptions" but experience.