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Prof of Economics, @cpowellschool , @CityCollegeNY , @GC_CUNY , visiting @CUBoulder , former White House SBST. Behavioral econ. Outside there’s a boxcar waiting.

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Yun-men asked a monk if he preferred a cup of tea with one grain of sugar to one with 2 grains of sugar. The monk replied he would not know the difference Then Yun-men proposed a row of 1000 cups, each differentiated from the next by one grain of sugar The monk was enlightened.
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Almost 29 years to the day before Theodore Kaczynski died in a Federal prison cell in North Carolina, I was a newly-minted PhD working as an antitrust consultant in Princeton when I received a strange package. 🧵1/10
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A few minutes later, the bomb squad guys walked out, lugging their suitcases and smiling. One of them leaned over and whispered to me, "Save the whales!" 10/10
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I looked at the tape. It was a training video on how to engage in environmental activism. It was from the Sierra Club, which I had recently joined. It all fit: San Francisco, and the box I'd checked on a recent mailer about getting more involved. I felt pretty sheepish. 9/n
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So, taking the package, I went to the Princeton police. The first thing the officer there did was tell me I should have gone to the Princeton TOWNSHIP police, not the Princeton BORO police. Not their jurisdiction, since I'd received the package in the Township, not the Boro. 4/10
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About 15 minutes later, he and another officer came out to tell me that the package was highly suspicious and that they had called the New Jersey State Bomb Squad. Would I please wait? It would take the squad about an hour to arrive. Now very glad I'd come, I said "Sure." 6/10
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@johnjhorton Along somewhat similar lines, I owned my car for 6 years in grad school and didn't realize until the day I sold it that it had a fold-down rear seat. I will say this... The buyer noted that I learned this functionality on the fly and that clinched the sale.
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Another half hour passed as I sat tensely, expecting a loud noise or other signs of commotion. Finally, the officer who'd originally greeted me came out and handed me a VHS tape. This was what was in the package, he said. 8/n
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The package was a 10x13 manila envelope containing something rectangular. It had no return address but had been postmarked in San Francisco. I didn't know who in San Francisco might have sent me an unmarked package. No one I knew there had told me to expect anything. 2/10
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Like everyone I'd been hearing a lot about a person called the Unabomber who'd been sending exploding packages to people with PhDs. The packages were typically mailed from the Bay Area. I didn't see why this Unabomber would target me. Still I didn't like this one bit. 3/10
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About 90 minutes later two men in uniforms arrived. They were carrying big suitcases, which I assumed contained the squad's defusing equipment The men told me that their job would be to either open or else destroy the package I'd brought. They would let me know what happened 7/n
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This turned out not to be a deal killer, as the officer took the package into a back room to have it examined further. I waited. 5/10
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So much in academic economics is a signaling game. LaTeX is a signal of a certain insider group status - having invested in the group’s values and the group’s rituals
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If it’s not typed with LaTeX it’s not worth reading
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Another how-to book that should instill a lot of concern
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The NYPD thinks that the OUP Very Short Introductions are how-to books. In that spirit, here are some reading recommendations, in alphabetical order:
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Danny Kahneman was incredibly accomplished and simply a mensch. When I was a grad student he let me audit his ug psych course in decision-making, even though the room was packed. He gave me comments on my first paper. He set my career on its course. I owe him a huge debt. RIP
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I was cleaning up around the house and found a few letters
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One thing about the Twitter study I have not seen commented on: the persistent obsession that economists have with focusing on behaviors in their own profession as an object of study. Why? Who cares about academic economists as much as… academic economists?
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Wow. (It's not clear that the boost to downstream outcomes like flyouts could hold in long-run equilibrium, or that added visibility really is the mechanism driving it. But still, pretty striking, QED!)
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It's really impossible to explain the prevalence of successful, long-term marriages during recorded history without a model of motivated preference. A 🧵, 1/14
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Tolkien was a conservative. Environmentalism is not a left or right issue. It is about loving the world enough to sacrifice your short term gain for it.
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@language_arts There is little question that there is a strong environmental undercurrent that runs through Lord of the Rings
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Older son just got into b-school at Booth and Kellogg, so he and I will be in Chicago on 7/26 and 7/27 to check both out! #EconTwitter Chicago friends: if you are around then and up for pitching your school to my kid (and maybe a stroll around campus), pls DM me. Thanks! 🙏😉
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"Eat one rock a day. It's all we ask." --California Rock Growers Association
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Since the Replication Crisis started, been seeing these billboards popping up everywhere
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🥳🙌I am very excited to announce that my paper “Focusing As Commitment” has been accepted into the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization! 🧵👇 with an overview. 1/10
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@EconoTodd That student is also taking my class
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Great to see that you can now read "Thoughts Matter: A Theory of Motivated Preference" without need to access through your library, via this direct link:
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My first published paper turns 30 next month! It models in effect how deceptive advertising is a hack that exploits individual bounded rationality @add_hawk
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Good morning, Prague!
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I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded a Sabbatical Fellowship from the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at @CUBoulder and will accordingly be visiting CU-Boulder during 2024-25. Looking forward to enjoyable and productive year! Go Buffs!
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Goodness of fit
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Call that sharp econometrics
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@OK_Surf @dbergstresser “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money.”
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My son’s iPhone was stolen in the NYC subway right after Thanksgiving while he was en route back to college. Then the impossible occurred: @NYPDTransit detectives recovered it. The phone is now safely back in our house. Thank you NYPD! 🙏😌
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You must have at least as many RAs as errors in your paper to ensure that the paper is full rank
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"We are thankful for X and Y for their excellent research assistance. The remaining errors of the paper are theirs."
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Borrowing Amazon technology, QJE will now predict your submission and send you your desk rejection on an anticipatory basis
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@KhoaVuUmn I once received a desk reject from QJE… and I wasn’t planning to submit the paper until the next day.
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Saw this in Oxford. Immediately thought of @English_Channel .
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My recent work has challenged this assumption. Psych research suggests that people change their stated preference for objects after they've committed to them. And recent work confirms that choice-induced preference change is integral to the decision process... 8/14
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Older son finishing his first marathon today. So proud! 🙌🏼🤟
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I did a 10-year postdoc called “work in consulting, government, and the private sector” AMA
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@generic_void I dunno… The first year of a grad program is intense. With problem sets, lectures, and readings I felt like I was eating, sleeping and breathing Econ. If I’d had to talk to someone in bed about the same things I would’ve gone nuts 😂
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I guess de gustibus EST disputandum
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Hey, this is cool… Was wondering when it would get here
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Yesterday my car was hit while parked next to a restaurant I was eating in. Normally, a crash like this would be a major drag. There is, at minimum, the prospect of a police report,insurance,body shop... and another driver (who one's priors suggest is adversely selected) 🧵1/14
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Fibonacci sequence in the wall, Göteborg
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The dream: teaching grad micro with 5 TAs
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Hiked it ✅👍
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When I was in 3rd year of PhD, though I didn’t take much interest in the papers in AER, QJE, and JPE, I was fascinated by advertising. Why did people pay attention to it? No one had a good explanation. I thought: what if it’s bc we’re boundedly rational?
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When I was in 3rd year of PhD, I read every paper published in AER, QJE, JPE from 2000-2020, bc I wanted to get a sense of what everyone was working on. It took I think 3 full time months, spread out over half a year or so? Was great and gave me a bunch of useful perspective
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🚨🚨 New working paper alert!🚨🚨 “Advertising and Self-Persuasion.” Short thread 👇 with an overview. 1/n Link to paper here:
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Bayes lived in the 1700s. Few people even had basic numeracy then. That’s pretty damning.
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@ben_golub Feynman did have some nice things to say about economics more generally. At least relative to the other social sciences. He reserved his worst wrath for psychology.
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Theory of the second best is right at home in this meme... Though it seems my intermediate micro students would be the ideal audience for this, maybe not so much #EconTwitter ?
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@djthornton97 @littmath So then... The trick to defeating the Riddler is for Batman to reduce him to a supervillain he already knows how to defeat?
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what do you guys think is going on with the apparently quite broad human instinct to copy and repeat each other's jokes? are jokes supposed to be memetic?
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what do you guys think is going on with the apparently quite broad human instinct to copy and repeat each other's jokes? are jokes supposed to be memetic?
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TIL Iceland has more poets per capita than any other country in the world
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When I was a senior in college, I experienced a crisis. I had everything: good grades, wonderful girlfriend, every reason to expect a bright future. And yet - almost suddenly it seemed - I found I was miserable. A 🧵... 1/9
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So it begins! #Sabbatical
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Excited for the first day of my Behavioral Economics class for Fall semester! 📕🍎🍁 Time to introduce a new cohort of students to loss aversion! 🙀
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@ben_golub Just to be clear: this illustrates not the adverse effects that come from policy taking its cue from academics, but rather the misguided impression among academics that they have any influence on policy.
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Found these old aviators in my closet. Yes? Or should I put them back in the closet?
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🚨🚨Thrilled to report that I have just completed a new working paper, titled, “Certainly, This Would Be A Good Place for the Title of Your Paper.”
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New pics just dropped. Not sure these are the right vibe for my profile pic on this site, though.
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The thumb on the scale benefiting wealthy students in university admissions (Chetty et al NBER) is tied up, for at least some unis, in the need to balance tuition losses from financial aid granted to excellent needy students...as I argue in this paper:
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Son at Everest base camp today
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@ne0liberal “Short skirts AND short skirts” (emphasis added)
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@causalinf With my own career, I pursued the unusual sequence: PhD-industry-academia. And I’m here to tell you: industry is mostly boring. You don’t choose your own projects, don’t get the time to study things properly & you’re inevitably pressured to conform results to what’s desired.
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From L’Aigulle du Midi, Chamonix. This afternoon. All I can say is: wow
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Son (at right) and his cousin about to board flight at Dulles for Nepal for 2 months of trekking. The beard-growing contest has begun, folks
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@PhDemetri Walking on water a plus
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Set a lifetime personal record out running this morning of 16.42 miles. 🏃 Oh am I going to hurt tomorrow 😂
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🏃🏃‍♀️tip: To avoid beating up on yourself over performance, remember that most of what determines how fast your run is is exogenous. The main endogenous factor is your decision to run at all! So just get outside and go! #ECON5K @the_econ5k
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The downside of travel: risk ☹️
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TFW, in Geneva Airport, I just got automatically connected to eduroam for the first time
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🚨ALERT!🚨My paper, "Focusing As Commitment," newly published at JEBO, is available for download for free until December 27. Please use this link: BTW it's officially "in print" in the December 2023 issue 👌
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🥳🙌I am very excited to announce that my paper “Focusing As Commitment” has been accepted into the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization! 🧵👇 with an overview. 1/10
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@economeager @ArmandDoma Same. The objective of the far right is to see government fail. So naturally installing far right people in government results in a government that fails, and then people blame… government
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@Andrew___Baker No, I agree. The tweet presumes contributions to knowledge should be judged by how accessible they are to a broad audience. While accessibility is always desirable, it’s not a relevant criterion for advancing science.
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Helpful time chart showing number of Elizabeths leading the UK during September and October
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Drop the most iconic pic of you.
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Drop the most iconic pic of you.
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8th annual CCNY business and economics alumni hike at Breakneck Ridge ✌️ @kevinrfoster @HOuafaa
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I still have codes. Several! Hit me up if you want one. Really.
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When I teach theory of production in intermediate micro, I talk about food trucks. Adding a new plant = adding a new truck, or you can add sandwich presses to an existing truck. What happens when you add more workers to your truck without more sandwich presses? And so on.
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First bike ride from my new home in Boulder to the CU Center that houses my sabbatical office. 🚴‍♂️
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@ShengwuLi All 10 people who changed how you view the world invented calculus
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Thrilled to see that my paper co-authored with @DiSalvoCCNY , “Police Unions, Race, and Trust in the Police,” is now in print at Political Science Quarterly.
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Your daily illustration of compound interest
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
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I think it's fun that my last(?) disease is basically stress from all the other 12 diseases
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Northwestern University campus, this afternoon
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The new Laffer curve just dropped @wwwojtekk
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Sen. Tim Scott on the 2017 GOP tax law: “What we know is the Laffer Curve still works, but the lower the tax the higher the revenue”
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Gary Charness demonstrated many remarkable things in the lab. But he also showed us something remarkable by his example: that starting on a path even in midlife, one can go on to achieve great things. RIP
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I have a sabbatical coming in 2024-25. Any thoughts on where I should visit? I plan to work on finishing the book I’ve just started, but also open to new collaborations in behavioral econ theory and experimental work. Any/all suggestions welcome! 🙏😊
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This morning, longest run since August surgery. Feel great. All upside. @the_econ5k coming - can’t wait
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Just completed 12.4 mile run on the Patriots Path near Morristown. Waiting now for my son, who is doing additional mileage. (His goal for the day is 19 miles!) 🏃🏃‍♂️
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Gotta take at least one dark academia outfit on sabbatical. (It’s all I can do not to try wearing this with Vans.😅)
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Older son left behind his Vineyard Vines shirt and I’ve been wearing it a lot. It’s turning into my version of the @dbergstresser track suit
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If I had it my way, Econ PhD students would read Chaucer and Neruda
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Moon over Mont Blanc and the River Arve, Chamonix, 10pm this evening
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Econometrics pro tip: The more you tighten your grip, the more variation will slip through your fingers
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This is me at 17
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This is what I looked like at 17
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Brought my 8-miler down to sub-8…finally! Cooler weather the key 🔑 🏃
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Pray for me, folks. I seem to be at the heart of the fire pit rn
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@Jackbmeyer Economists: But isn’t this what you asked us for?
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Miss them!
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. 🌴🍋‍🟩🥥
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I found some #EconTwitter exiles last night
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