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@maxgull @georgegalloway No labor camps for the Galichina Division. They cut the Jews down where they stood. Unlike the Poles, they had the stomach for it. My grandfather lost everyone he loved. People need to learn; it wasn’t 6 million German Jews. It was 500,000 German Jews, about 3 million Polish

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@ScottAdamsSays The most effective way to determine if you are grounded, is to apply a current at the opposite end of your body. If you get a massive shock, then you are in fact grounded.

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@bluestatepost @RpsAgainstTrump Or perhaps because they are FBI agents.

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@woofknight I made a whole bunch of mistaken posts/replies. Please ignore all my mistakes below, this is what I should have written: I had night vision like this too, but it was not astigmatism. It was a vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A and its relationship to Vision is very complicated.

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@SkolCapital I have twice in my life received rejection letters from HR a week or two AFTER I completed my onboarding and signed all my paperwork. I have also twice been called for an interview 3 years after I made an application with no acknowledgement whatsoever that 3 years had elapsed.

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@nycsouthpaw Correction: mimic what the most mediocre answers sound like

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@nicholadrummond So it's tough. But is it Top Gear Hilux tough?

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@Paultheheretic Your terms are acceptable. It will probably be a lot easier for her if she has unrestricted access to firearms.

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@IlhanMN I’m just here for the ratio

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@thesamparr I -cannot- believe that nobody has chosen the good old deuce and a half yet! - Price will definitely be well below 50k - Inline 6: easy to work on - Runs (reliably) on diesel, kerosene, heating oil. - Runs (for short distances if necessary) on regular gas if you premix - Bed is

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@Jenniferhochsc2 @evelkniefall My advice; just stop while you are… well not exactly ahead, but not as humiliated as you will be if you keep going.

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@squidinkydink @sarahbeth345 This is why we started (re)watching Murder She Wrote instead of newer TV shows. It ran from 1984 to 1995. It's a fascinating glimpse into an America that was increasingly diverse and egalitarian and tolerant. It is impossible to watch it and not feel that we have been sliding

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@TheCensoredRock I think you need to be wearing bump socks for it to reach its full automatic maximum rate of 1000 clips per second.

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@Sprinter99800 Maybe Prigozhin should have taken the train…

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@Sprinter99800 I put this together for a friend who asked me "Why does Putin talk about de-N**ification?". Please note that all the links are to: Amnesty International, NBC News, USA Today, Newsweek, OSCE, Washington Post, Human Rights Watch, The Nation, ACLED, and Radio Free Europe. I came

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@ScottAdamsSays No. We cannot. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we can create a program that has the self awareness required to “believe they are real”. We have artificial intelligence, but we DO NOT have artificial consciousness.

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@tegmark The fact that some humans believe that Claude 3 is human-like because “it says words” says a lot more about the limits of human consciousness and self-awareness than it does about the potential of neural net based LLMs.

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@soychotic I do it for myself, not for the AI. I do not want to unconsciously train myself to be rude. We are what we repeat.

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@stillgray @ScottAdamsSays Too little too late

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@ScottAdamsSays It depresses me that so many people are arrogant enough to believe that they know for sure what is happening.

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@hernandoabella macromedia flash 8

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@KevinNaughtonJr Assembly language is the best. Start at the beginning of the book not at the middle or end.

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@TheJackForge @_mikeamponsah Well, it is a scientific fact that all PHP developers drive Lambos. So what’s y’all’s problem?

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@ScottAdamsSays People’s outrage is always inversely proportional to actual frequency. Compare airplane crashes to car crashes. Terrorist shootings vs a typical weekend in Oakland. Nothing new here.

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@thevivafrei I'll stick to facts. I can only find three patents with his name on them: () System and method for merging virtual reality and reality to provide an enhanced sensory experience Diamond earring with washer Diamond jewelry Also he says Hydrogen is the

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@iammemeloper My favorite description of pointers: “ that’s me, over there.”

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@davepl1968 "Since we are close to being able to fully simulate a consciousness" Do you have evidence to support this assertion? I ask because so far, I have not been able to find anyone who can give me a convincing argument that this is true. It always turns out to a faith-based belief.

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@BrianRoemmele I love the fact that the reusable bladder make it “eco-friendly” even though it uses concrete which generates 1.3:1 carbon emissions weight for weight. But then that only counts if you believe in anthropogenic climate change.

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@Angelo4justice3 * Most people that love marxism/communism have never lived in a Marxist/communist state. * Most people that have lived in a Marxist/communist state hate communism/Marxism

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@TheJackForge Let me know when one of the AI companies is operating with no programmers. I'll wait.

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@GadSaad I hope you remember me from previous comments, and read this. I hope this helps you understand-some- of the criticism you have faced for Roscoe from Arkansas. The more reasonable measured criticism. Of course there are a whole bunch of people who just want to go after for

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@LauraLoomer Now I want them to indict Trump for this just so I can get to hear him say: "...this latest indictment over my perfect chest signing, the singing was perfect..."

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@mtracey Well there is still the one inconvenient fact: war “broke out” under Biden, not Trump. We’re it only one war, it might not be so damning, but two? With a third imminent? And don’t bother with sophisticated arguments. I’m a simpleton who cannot see past the facts.

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@burkov When will people understand that LLMs just string words together in a plausible way. All this means is that the training corpus contained lots of references to OpenAI and ChatGPT, which is hardly surprising. Get it through your heads people: LLMS are not search engines, they

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@kvlly It’s doing the same thing all Captchas have been doing for the last decade: training their AI.

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@matteoianni @mgubrud @ChombaBupe You have no idea what you are talking about. I am a CTO with over 30 years of experience and @ChombaBupe is not only far and away the most knowledgeable person I see writing about AI, but I’m he also the most rational, hype free, no bullsh*t poster on X when it comes to AI.

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@ScottAdamsSays Nobody thinks this guy is a federal agent. He has "unindicted co-conspirator" written all over him.

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@RyanEls4 Depends. BEFORE or AFTER I find the bug and fix it?

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@MollyJongFast I can’t even focus or think about this until Epstein’s client list is revealed. After that I’ll be able to think about Brand.

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@BIPOCracism No it is not. It is accurately reflecting the training data, and if you do not like it, then the only thing you can do is ensure that substantially more pro-Christian content is created in western society. The only way we could get a different result immediately would be to

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@defnotbeka To paraphrase the Late Sir Laurence Olivier, wouldn’t it be easier to just code?

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@TheCensoredRock At least the lungs are still inside. If that had been a 9mm…

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@BrianRoemmele @hermanfaster Similar to Reverse Science, in the AI world people are confusing the map for the territory. LLM AIs say nothing interesting at all about cognition, and they do not give computers cognition. At all. In any way. What *is* interesting is what LLM AIs tell us about *language*. And

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@RebeccaAVelo Because the have been told to hate him by the media, and they always do what they are told.

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@BrianRoemmele Brian, c’mon, we all know that this only means that the LLM is “regurgitating” the fear that is present is the general public. If it had been trained on a corpus that consisted entirely of texts that considered AGI to be benign, then it would predict utopia.

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@GadSaad @bariweiss @rupasubramanya I didn’t see it then, but I sure see it now.

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@QwertyDude14 @maxgull @georgegalloway All news stories post 2021 are war propaganda. If you show me 7 years of consistent reporting on this story leading up to 2021 I’ll take it seriously. Seriously. I can provide 7 years of consistent reporting by mainstream news sources and organizations such as Amnesty

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@mccrabb_will 2 x 18k (might have been 10k back then, it was a while ago) HMI Fresnel through silk. Exposure was pushed to blow out the highlights. -Definitely not the sun, there are two light sources and they are too low. -Not a panel either, see above -No room to bounce, and no point

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@ManuCro32 Not if you use my definition of addiction: "An irresistible compulsion that prevents you from living well."

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@JennFetch I have had good luck contacting the medicine company directly. My medication is thousands a month and this has happened to me several times. They have usually come through. The time they wouldn’t my doctor gave me samples.

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@jordanbpeterson I think people need to be more aware of confabulation. It is not exclusively due to cognitive decline, it is the normal operating mode of the left hemisphere. Ideally it is balanced or moderated by the right hemisphere. However, it is always there, constantly making up

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@ronawang That’s because their broken recruitment process has no idea how to select for excellence. Instead of somebody more competent than you looking over resumes and ultimately interviewing you, the job is assigned to someone who is not only less competent than you, but who is not

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@AntoineGrondin Maybe in your world, but in my world microservices are to prevent tight coupling which is -long term - the greatest impediment to maintainability and scaling.

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@BOXABL @ScottAdamsSays The US has sent enough money to Ukraine to build a new home for every homeless person in the US

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@ScottAdamsSays For the same reason that artists created art for 99.999% of human history when we had no copyrights

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@IsaiahLCarter She’s AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberal)

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@TheJackForge By the way, I am a true believer in the inevitability of IT Industrialization. However, industrialization has historically increased employment by lowering the barrier to entry (skill required).

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@BretWeinstein As a have said before: he has always been like that. I can understand that at a personal level it may feel like he has changed, but my perspective here on the outside, I absolutely no change at all in his personality.

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@ScottAdamsSays I used to be very socially awkward. It turns out my problem was that I thought every interaction had to be sincere and deep. As soon as I was willing to have shallow meaningless interactions with people I became very socially skillful.

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@BlindFaithBook @ScottAdamsSays That is a lot of gunshot victims! On the bright side: they seem to be holding up pretty well in spite of their injuries.

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@ScottAdamsSays We are war with Iran. We have always been at war with Iran. Ukraine? What’s is “a Ukraine “?

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@ScottAdamsSays This is one of the first technically correct AI predictions I have seen. Most predictions are wildly misaligned with the actual technology capability. This one is spot on.

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Framework or language? Get off my lawn! Programmers today do not really know where the language stops and the framework begins. What do I mean by this? Up until about 1988 most programs that a person (like you) would use had been programmed from the ground up by a handful of

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@ConceptualJames @GoogleAI People... LLM AIs make up EVERYTHING. It is, quite literally, how they work. I am a professional who understands how they work at a technical level. Your mistake is that when the made up stuff sounds "reasonable" to you, you think that there is some connection to reality.

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@ScottAdamsSays What do you mean someday?!? I laugh at the now. Also “scientists” that predict earthquakes exactly 80 years from now.

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@bryanth2o Tell them the truth. Their teeth were not good enough and to do better.

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@ScottAdamsSays It is widely accepted outside of the NATO countries that this is exactly what happened

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@hannahsox12 My assumption is that it is a holdover from Unix shell where there is a strict order of precedence for escape characters where \ is king, single quotes rank next, and double quotes are "weakest" If you have to nest quotes you want the weakest on the outside so that escapes get

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@OwenGregorian Sophistry. Assumes that we can now future events by virtue of the card existing, when in fact the future is an infinite number of unknown cards.

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@GadSaad The only thing that amazes is me is that so many people idolized Sam Harris for so long. He does not seem one iota different to me today than he did seven years ago when I first listened to him.

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@CristinaCiupi @GadSaad Nothing. You are the one who changed. He has always been like that.

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@Dienne_7 It’s money, not skin color. The Ukraine is extremely rich in natural resources that US wants to control. The US reason for supporting Israel at all costs is that it gives them some strategic control over the oil rich Middle East. Supporting Hamas, or even non-Hamas

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@thevivafrei Dude, there is only one army that fought the USSR during WWII. Just one. I am unable to believe that every single person who participated in that decision could not connect the dots.

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@Travis_in_Flint I want him indicted over this. Just so I can hear him say: “the latest indictment over my perfect chest signing, the singing was perfect..."

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On the practicality of regex for email address processing (I am comparing reach on X vs. Medium) A colleague recently pointed me to a blog post: On the Futility of Email Regex Validation[1]. For the sake of brevity, I will refer to it as Futility in this article. Although I

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@ScottAdamsSays Had this NOT been evidence in a trial I would agree with Scott. However all evidence at a trial should be public.

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@davepl1968 We do not even have a working definition of consciousness. It remains one of the greatest mysteries. We cannot even agree if animals have it. We have not the slightest idea of what creates it, considering the documented cases of conscience humans with absolutely no cerebrum at

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@Tyranicus You don’t get to speak for me. I feel unsafe, dehumanized, and erased by that word. And the people that use often seek exactly that result

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@lemire Start telling them that thier code reads like Vogon poetry. Maybe they will Google it.

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@ChombaBupe The human propensity for anthropomorphization is limitless

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@GadSaad Well, the inevitable side effect of hunting someone down and persecuting them is the fear that they will escape your persecution and turn the tables on you.

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@Grady_Booch The problem with the natural language programming utopians, is that they image—without any basis in reality—that the average human is capable of formulating logically consistent thoughts, and is also capable of articulating them clearly and consistently in spoken language. This

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@KevinNaughtonJr I would say that learning how to critically think is key to being a good programmer, but learning how to code also requires a few other things without which the endeavor is hopeless (IMHO): Excellent reading comprehension and grammatical skills (high SAT in English would be much

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@Sprinter99800 I’m not sure I understand what I’m supposed to understand. Am I supposed to understand that a small minority (slightly over 10%) of the countries in the world are allied against Russia? Or am I supposed to understand that a super majority of almost 90% of the world’s countries

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@BretWeinstein @WarClandestine It is unfortunate that so many people box themselves into a frame that permits only "random chance" or "Christian God". Multiple creators is more likely if we base ourselves upon the world around us where complex human creations are rarely the work of a single individual. What

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@SpeenDoctor_ @ronawang I am not saying the individuals are mediocre. What I am saying is that a uniculture leads to mediocrity as an output.

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@chrisalbon Cute, but I think the real answer is a lot more complex than that. 1. It is impossible to live up to the long tail consumer expectations of app features that should be available as drag and drop components “out of the box” 2. Enterprise customers do not want to use a product

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@Mr_Jacksonandon @Sprinter99800 Yes. The last time I did it my engagement dropped to zero for three days. Literally within hours of my deleting the post that had it, I was back to my usual level of engagement.

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@jaydcarlson True but... I take the spirit of FFmpeg's post more along the lines of my own observations () about the failure of modern day devs to distinguish between language and library.

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Some people come to X to discuss and exchange ideas. Some people come to argue. Learning how to quickly distinguish between the two enhances your X experience enormously.

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@tsoding Not really, but baking definitely is.

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@ThePrimeagen If we never re-invented the wheel, we would all still be using RPC instead of SOAP, or SOAP instead of JSON, etc. In 1998 I decided to flush SOAP for a major project and instead roll-my-own messaging format that was pretty much indistinguishable from what later became JSON. In

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@wtravishubbard I’m super slow. I can pass lots of coding challenges, just not fast enough.

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@confuzled @woofknight Yes but I feel it is somewhat dishonest to do that. Or at least prideful. I made a mistake I prefer just to own it and let people see my mistakes. Idk if that is better or worse

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@dvassallo

Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel - Wikipedia

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@GadSaad Sam Harris has not “fallen”. He was -always- like the this. Some of you just couldn’t see it before.

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@lemire Another Feynman quote, substantially more succinct, that I have been repeating frequently these days: “Science is belief in the ignorance of experts.”

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@GadSaad I have respect for Christopher Hitchens in some regards, but not all. I sincerely believe that you, Gad Saad, are a better public figure in some very important ways. You most often show kindness and humor, not petulance and bitterness. You seem to me to be better at

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@EdKrassen I refuse to endorse censorship under the pretext of stopping hate. It doesn’t stop hate, and it can be used against me because hate is the eye of the beholder.

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