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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 8 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.558s | source | bottom
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idlewords ◴[15 Sep 16 18:28 UTC] No.12508545[source]▶
I am very happy that there's a transcript. But I just spent two minutes trying to figure out how to cut and paste it into a textfile (Scribd won't let me download it without signing up).

My request to YC is to publish transcripts like this as text.

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1. sandslash ◴[15 Sep 16 18:36 UTC] No.12508596[source]▶
Hi there. That certainly is inconvenient!

Here's a link to the transcript in RTF, and we will definitely note it for future posts: https://goo.gl/kaMMwv

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2. idlewords ◴[15 Sep 16 18:43 UTC] No.12508663[source]▶
Heh, now it's asking me to sign up to Dropbox.

Thanks for noting my request, and consider just including the text in the body of the page. It will blow people's minds.

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3. sandslash ◴[15 Sep 16 18:48 UTC] No.12508712[source]▶
Ah, shoot. I forgot that happens there too (at least you can close that popup and get back to the content :) )

And definitely noted!

4. doneallison ◴[15 Sep 16 19:01 UTC] No.12508826[source]▶
I didn't notice it at first, but there was a link at the bottom of the popup for me that said "No thanks, continue to download." Clicking it triggered the download.
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5. clydethefrog ◴[15 Sep 16 19:04 UTC] No.12508850[source]▶
And it's a shorted goo.gl url, that also could expire or be removed in the future.

What's indeed against plain text in the body? It's more easy, it will always be readable. And what about accessibility? Or archiving the content?

6. DavidWanjiru ◴[15 Sep 16 19:29 UTC] No.12509072{3}[source]▶
How do you get transcripts done? In house,outsourced to a transcription service,voice recognition software?
7. 0003 ◴[15 Sep 16 19:53 UTC] No.12509274[source]▶
utility delta X users who hate PDFs/Scribd = a large integral .
8. nojvek ◴[15 Sep 16 20:45 UTC] No.12509678[source]▶
I just want to read the whole text without signing up for some stupid app. Why oh why is this so hard in 2016?