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		ronnoch on Aug 31, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Higher Education Bubble: It's About to Burst Technical explanation: The Disqus comments don't load until a second or two after the permalink's anchor jump (#comment-55003614) is attempted by the browser. So when the browser tries to jump to the comment, the comment isn't there yet.

carbocation on Aug 31, 2010 [–]

It's an unfortunate side-effect. I wonder if Disqus could circumvent this by using a hashchange-type trick (referencing Ben Alman's BBQ jQuery addon).

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