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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by dmoney on Sunday January 10, 2010 @08:40PM (#1044086)
A tl;dr summary helps to figure out which 10 page essays to read, and which would just waste of 30 minutes of your life.
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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by Semiapies on Monday January 11, 2010 @01:18PM (#1045602)
I suspect it may be a waste either way; at least some of the tl;dr complainers seem to have trouble doing more than skimming such an essay.

Therein lies the real problem.

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