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		FartyMcFarter 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce If you type 2 asterisks it's rendered as one, it's an escape character mechanism: This text has one asterisk on each side This one has two on each side

thrownthatway 16 days ago [–]

Obvious now

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