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Afton on Feb 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extracting the SuperFish certificate

That's because you find them obscure. If your community used them more frequently you would just read them in place, like people do with IANAL, LGTM, AFAIK, etc.

Incidentally, I didn't understand this one, but I don't blame OP (oops, I mean 'original poster') for misunderstanding the linguistic norms of HN (hacker news).

TeMPOraL on Feb 19, 2015 | [–]

I agree. Nowdays I read things like "IANAL" or "AFAIK" as words, not acronyms. When one reaches this point, such acronyms are pretty convenient.

lione on Feb 19, 2015 | | [–]

Incidentally, first time I've seem LGTM, had to google it.

vacri on Feb 19, 2015 | | [–]

.lgbt as a gTLD? LGTM.

sigzero on Feb 19, 2015 | [–]

Just spell it out!

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