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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by tyingq on Saturday April 20, 2019 @08:45PM (#19709851)
"How to use asterisks here?"

There is a Unicode small asterisk: ﹡

And some other variations: ∗ *

Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by mkl on Saturday April 20, 2019 @10:46PM (#19710271)
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

If you surround an asterisk by spaces it works fine: a * b * c * d