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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by icebraining on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:54PM (#6906614)
HN is owned by YCombinator. Scribd was founded under the YCombinator program. There's really not much to it.
Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by jimktrains2 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:52PM (#6907065)
I never see any other links like that for YC companies (and there are a lot of YC companies) on HN; that's why I was curious.

Aside: Why can I respond to you and not cmelbye?

Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by ics on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:04PM (#6907110)
> Why can I respond to you and not cmelbye?

There is a timer on new posts before anyone can reply. It's to force people to think a little before they post and is pretty effective in rate-limiting flamewars.