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		jey on Sept 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future Agreed, it's really excessive to take simple text content and trap it within a PDF that's then trapped inside Scribd, which requires a Scribd account and login to download.

nathancahill on Sept 15, 2016 [–]

Scribd is a YC company. What you're experiencing is called "growth hacking".

sannysanoff on Sept 15, 2016 | [–]

When i stumble upon it from time to time, scribd is the strange thing that wants to stand between me and information. This is very annoying.

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