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A comment on Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA. Parent comment

Re:Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data... by greggman2 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:35PM (#21236035)
IIRC FTFY means "Fixed That For You". AFAICT it's pretty common to use abbreviated phrases like that here in HN but maybe TPTB will say otherwise. FWIW abbreviations have a long history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUKn_Ar96PE

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Re:Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data... by bjornjaja on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:50PM (#21237455)
Acronyms are typically used for long-winded domain-specific terminology not easily typed common-language terms. Why create all these acronyms? Is typing not easy on a modern swipe keyboard?
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