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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by OJFord on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:01AM (#20401521)
I don't mean the hours, I mean the "cut-down version of".
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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by latexr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:20AM (#20401656)
Similar reason. Explaining how it was made (by cutting it dow) has no bearing on the why, which was the point.
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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by OJFord on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:49AM (#20401897)
No it wasn't, you were replying to:

> Is the author summarising his own impressions of Sapiens (surely acceptable), or literally lifting the original text of the book and taking it as his own [...]?

The first sentence about cutting it down answers that.

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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by latexr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:06PM (#20404619)
> No it wasn't, you were replying to

No, I was not, I was replying to the section I quoted (hence quoting it, that’s how that works).

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