What kind of psychopath would choose to use Google over DuckDuckGo?
(psychopaths)
(data mine data-mine)
(Comma after the word “invasive“.)
[It’s a hyphen, not a dash.]
The fact that you’ve never seen it before is not surprising. About 20 or 30 years ago, education began to slowly decline in its teachings concerning writing, to include punctuation.
The two-word phrase you used renders a much different meaning when the words stand alone from each other. By hyphenating the phrase, it connects the two words and shows that they’re descriptive in nature, or more accurately, that the phrase is descriptive in nature. What you’re describing here is a process, a method of mining and what is being mined. Data is being mined, mining of data is what’s being done.
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