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Or “belt-and-braces”. What the fuck.

Something very, very different to everyone else, it would seem.

Your browser prefetch probably already did the DNS lookup anyway.

10% of a very potent dosage is hardly homeopathy.

In general people have come to expect that hitting return once in a comment field on GitHub will produce a newline, having been the case for many years, so we try to preserve that expectation. Hence not changing the option being used when rendering comments.

Conversely, they don't expect the same from Markdown files stored in their repository (e.g. I put each sentence in a paragraph on its own line for my blog, for easier diffing and editing). Additionally, we couldn't normalise these documents even if we wanted (to prevent everything breaking by being over-vertically spaced). Hence not changing the option being not used in this case!

As of this announcement, file backed content _does_ use GFM (try a table!), but not the `hardbreaks` option.

GFM itself leaves that line unchanged because we don't actually change that option in our implementation — the reference implementation `cmark` (which we built upon) supplies the "hardbreaks" option, described as follows:

> --hardbreaks Treat newlines as hard line breaks

We turn this option on when rendering issues, issue comments and so on, but leave it off when rendering blobs (such as README.md). Both are GFM, one just uses this option to make it more conducive to communication.

> So why haven't Github, Shopify, Twitch, Groupon or others pour any resources in ?

GitHub does; Tenderlove works on Ruby there!

> I am not going to read Techcrunch article about [mental health].

Then:

> Mental health is a subject that doesn't get attention in any facet of American culture.

???

Major (consumer) ISPs in Australia offer native dual-stack.

Neither in Australia.