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		dctoedt on Sept 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons from the Gnome Patent Troll Incident "in effect makes industrial policy for the entire United States." (I did it in bold italic using YayText -- https://yaytext.com/ )

dang on Sept 6, 2020 | [–]

Please don't do that - we try to avoid visual gimmicks in HN threads. As https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc explain, you can put asterisks around something to italicize it.

dredmorbius on Sept 6, 2020 | [–]

Using HN's italic convention is preferred.

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