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		pg on March 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea Comments are getting meaner in general as the site grows larger.

glimcat on March 14, 2012 [–]

It would be interesting to run sentiment analysis on the archives of various online communities to figure out where the likely phase transition point is. Probably a PhD in it for someone.

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