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Re:Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) by hhanesand on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:08PM (#22332219)
Guessing those last two parameters are languages. I don't see the issue, but I commonly trim tracking strings off too.
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Re:Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) by ta999999171 on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:07PM (#22332887)
For the layperson reading, for articles, this is usually anything after the ? in a URL.
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Re:Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) by Johnny555 on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:02PM (#22333160)
That's not a good rule of thumb since often the unique identifier you're interested in is a query arg, so if you strip of everything after the ?, you're left with nothing. like the URL above, all you'll have left is:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search

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Re:Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) by userbinator on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:36PM (#22333296)
Yes, there's no real general rule (see HN articles for instance) but "if I omit these parts of the URL, I get the same content" is usually a safe bet.
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