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Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes by mm0lqf on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:15AM (#47153519)
doesn't really mean anything, Mac randomly autocorrects dashes to em-dashes (caused me a world of pain once when it did that in a GUID in a config file)
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Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes by marginalia_nu on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:20AM (#47153617)
Are you saying new accounts are 10x more likely to be using macs? That would be quite a thesis.
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