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Read the article!?
I also recommend reading Eugen Rochko's own post about it, as Andy Piper linked to as well.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
Articles are incentivized to elaborate beyond what is even remotely necessary, link back to no one but themselves themselves, repeatedly, and to serve ads and extract personal information for sale while they're doing it.
So you'll have to excuse some of us looking for the tl;dr
I'm gonna call it: lazyness
I'm gonna call it: apathy
Then why bother asking here?
Edit: oh wait, you weren't the one who asked. My bad.
You'd be far more accurate if you said "news sites" or something instead of "articles".
It's not a universal truth, but it's kinda' true of techcrunch.
No tangible difference.
Yes there is