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There's really nothing there - 11 likes and 1 comment ?

Also, this very same Facebook link was linked to at https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38803/is-norber... by https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/24/opt

Neither this HN user, that FB user nor that stackexchange user seems like anyone important, respected or relevant in the field of CS of this article (correct me if I'm wrong).

Smells like a bad attempt at karma whoring to me.

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That 1 comment raises very serious doubts about that paper. The paper is basically assuming that a polynomial time solvable problem takes super-polynomial time. If it's using that fact in an integral manner then that kills the proof. And even if not, just the fact that the paper is making such a basic mistake raises questions as to how solid the rest of the paper is. Also the guy who made the comment (Luca Trevisan) is a very famous researcher in theory/crypto...

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