Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
by mkl on Saturday April 20, 2019 @10:46PM
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https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
If you surround an asterisk by spaces it works fine: a * b * c * d
There is a Unicode small asterisk: ﹡
And some other variations: ∗ *