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Re:Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new paten... by lolpep8 on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:31PM (#8038481)
You must concede that they are particularly prevalent in this community, and that PG's essays are notorious for their abundance of footnotes.

Oh, and they are used as a substitute for the lack of hyperlink markup in HN, which makes them a necessity when linking sources in comments.

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Re:Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new paten... by masklinn on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:56AM (#8040751)
> You must concede that they are particularly prevalent in this community

Not particularly so when compared with e.g. mailing lists (those I frequent anyway) and usenet.

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