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		jamesbritt on Aug 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity ser... Out of curiosity, how did the duplicate URL detector not catch that this was submitted four hours earlier? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2931770

tokenadult on Aug 27, 2011 [–]

The two URLs were not identical, as the earlier submitted had additional characters at the end (which appear to be a no-op in this case).

jamesbritt on Aug 27, 2011 | [–]

Yeah, I saw that, but thought that fragment IDs were ignore.

Oh well.

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