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dang on Oct 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Buffer raises $3.5M

The urls were slightly different. The duplicate detector is porous in this way by design, to allow good stories multiple cracks at the bat. We do intend to replace it with something more sophisticated, but in the meantime a small number of reposts is ok.

ecesena on Oct 27, 2014 [–]

Cool, just wanted to report the case. (got downvoted, not clear why, I'll maybe delete the comment if this continue)

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