sexta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2016

População mundial

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Sabedoria budista

A sabedoria budista está embasada em uma sabedoria milenar que, em sua essência, não contrasta com quaisquer outras religiões.
A Revista Pazes selecionou aos seus leitores 15 pérolas da sabedoria budista que, com total certeza, enriquecerá o seu cérebro e o fará mais próximo da sua paz interior e do seu equilíbrio.
1 –Quando a mente é pura, a alegria continua como uma sombra que não te abandona nunca.
2 – O segredo para a saúde da mente e do corpo reside em não lamentar o passado, não se preocupar com o futuro, não antecipar os problemas e viver conscientemente o presente.
3 – A paz vem de dentro, não a busque fora.
4 – Um bobo que reconhece a própria loucura é um sábio, enquanto que um bobo que pensa ser sábio é realmente um bobo.
5 – Não existe no mundo fogo mais forte que a paixão. Não há tubarão mais feroz que o ódio, nem furacão mais devastador que a cobiça.
6 – Irritar-se é como segurar um carvão quente com a intenção de jogar em outra pessoa; é você que se queima.
7 – A felicidade não depende de quem você é ou do que você tem. Ela depende apenas do que você pensa.
8 – Entender tudo significa perdoar tudo.
9 – É melhor errar mil vezes chamando um vilão de santo que uma vez chamando um santo de vilão..
10 – Tudo o que somos é o resultado de nossos pensamentos.
11 – O segredo da existência está em livrar-se do medo. Não tenha medo do que vai acontecer. Seu futuro não mudará por isso, mas seu presente será mais tranquilo.
12 – Milhares de velas podem ser acesas com uma vela, e a vida dessa vela não será menor. A felicidade nunca diminui quando você a divide com outras pessoas.
13 – Da mesma forma que uma mão sem feridas pode tocar o veneno sem medo, não existe mal para o bem.
14 – Uma palavra útil que serve para acalmar é melhor que milhares de discursos feitos de palavras inúteis.
15 – Ganhe de você mesmo e ganhará milhares de batalhas.
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quinta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2016

A verdade sobre Lincoln

Abraham LincolnThe Terrible Truth About Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate War


President Lincoln has been all but deified in America, with a god-like giant statue at a Parthenon-like memorial in Washington. Generations of school children have been indoctrinated with the story that “Honest Abe” Lincoln is a national hero who saved the Union and fought a noble war to end slavery, and that the “evil” Southern states seceded from the Union to protect slavery. This is the Yankee myth of history, written and promulgated by Northerners, and it is a complete falsity. It was produced and entrenched in the culture in large part to gloss over the terrible war crimes committed by Union soldiers in the War Between the States, as well as Lincoln’s violations of the law, his shredding of the Constitution, and other reprehensible acts. It has been very effective in keeping the average American ignorant of the real causes of the war, and the real nature, character and record of Lincoln. Let us look at some unpleasant facts.
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln stated clearly that (1) he had no legal authority to interfere with slavery where it existed, (2) that he had no inclination or intention to do so even if he had the legal authority, (3) that he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, returning runaway slaves escaping to the North to their masters in the South, and (4) that he fully supported the Thirteenth Amendment then being debated in Congress which would protect slavery in perpetuity and was irrevocable. He later famously stated, “Do not paint me with the Abolitionist brush.”
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Homicídios

O Brasil é o país com o maior número de homicídios no mundo, segundo um relatório divulgado nesta quarta-feira (10) pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), em Genebra. De cada 100 assassinatos no mundo, 13 são no Brasil.
Segundo o documento, o total de homicídios no mundo chegou a 475 mil. Os dados são de 2012.
O Brasil é o líder no ranking. O governo brasileiro informou 47 mil homicídios em 2012, mas a OMS estima que o número real tenha sido muito superior: mais de 64 mil homicídios. Depois do Brasil aparecem Índia, México, Colômbia, Rússia, África do Sul, Venezuela e Estados Unidos.
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Brasil na armadilha da renda média

O Brasil na armadilha da renda média
por , quinta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2016
A armadilha da renda média ocorre quando um país emergente entra em um período de estagnação após ele ter completado a sua "decolagem" e ter superado a armadilha da pobreza e a armadilha malthusiana.  Tendo chegado ao nível da renda média, a trajetória do crescimento econômico efetuada durante a decolagem deixa de ser sustentável.  
Durante a fase da decolagem, a mão-de-obra barata alimenta uma rápida expansão econômica em decorrência da migração que ocorre das áreas rurais para as cidades industriais. Nesta fase, a economia cresce pela migração, pela aglomeração e pela acumulação de capital.  As taxas de crescimento econômico são altas porque a mão-de-obra é abundante e barata, e a acumulação de capital ainda gera altos retornos.
As taxas de crescimento começam cair quando a mão-de-obra se torna menos abundante e o retorno marginal do capital se torna marginalmente menor.
O Brasil representa um caso em que a entrada na armadilha da renda média resultou em políticas erradas que pioraram a situação.

Governo for do consenso

Why real-world governments don’t have the consent of the governed – and why it matters

The Declaration of Independence famously states that governments\derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” But, sadly, this is almost never the case in the real world. If it is indeed true, as Abraham Lincoln famously put it, that “no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent,” that principle has more radical implications than Lincoln probably intended. Few if any of those who wield government power measure up to that lofty standard.
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quarta-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2016

Hans-Hermann Hoppe



In Defence of Hoppe

by Matt Battaglioli
hhhHans-Hermann Hoppe is one of today’s most published libertarians. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas’ Business School, as well as the founder and President of the Property and Freedom Society. Some of his books have been translated into as many as 25 different languages, and he holds a PhD in philosophy, as well with his habilitation in Applied Economics and Sociology from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. A student and colleague of Murray N. Rothbard, it is small wonder that Hoppe is able to provoke the minds and interests of so many libertarians with his work.

Professor Hoppe, though, does remain one of the most controversial, if not then the most controversial living figure in the world of academic libertarianism. He’s not the kind of academic that one is likely to have a moderate view of; he’s a love him or hate him kind of intellectual, and for a good reason, too. An Austrian School Economist, and anarcho-capitalist social theorist, Hoppe consistently says and writes down ideas that could easily be construed as racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and/or sexist. He doesn’t hold back on espousing even the most vehement criticisms of the state and its institutions, and he pays no mind to political correctness. In fact, the motto of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS) is “uncompromising intellectual radicalism”.
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A mentalidade dos bilionários

In a Quora thread answering the question "Do billionaires know something that normal people don't?" Patrick Methieson noted a Jobs quote that encapsulates the "billionaire mentality":
"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."
It's something that all wealthy people tend to internalize, explained Methieson, a venture investor who has worked with billionaires: "Billionaires realize that the world is pliable. With enough pressure applied to an endeavor, sufficiently resourceful people really can change the world. Contrast that with the rest of us who are more likely to assume the state of the world as static, or given."
Self-made millionaire Steve Siebold, who interviewed over 1,200 of the world's wealthiest people before writing "How Rich People Think," echoes this belief.
Rich people have an action mentality and are problem solvers. "While the masses are waiting to pick the right numbers and praying for prosperity, the great ones are solving problems," he writes.
This doesn't mean they're smarter than the average person, as Jobs noted. "They are just more strategic," Siebold explains. "When the rich need money, they don't wonder if it's possible, they simply begin creating new ideas that solve problems." 

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O bolsa familia do império romano

DO IMPÉRIO ROMANO
(Rodrigo Peñaloza, fev. 2015)
No Império Romano, por determinação do imperador Nerva (96–98 d.C.) e continuada por Trajano (98–117 d.C.), havia uma espécie de bolsa-família, denominada de “Alimenta” (plural do substantivo neutro “alimentum”, significando, portanto, “alimentos”), concedida a famílias miseráveis residentes na Itália.

terça-feira, 26 de janeiro de 2016

Como funciona magia

The science of magic tricks: From misdirection to 'pausing' time, experts reveal how their illusions mess with our minds

  • Neuroscientists explain how the art of misdirection works on our brains
  • Also explain how by multitasking, the audience is unable to focus on detail
  • Using comedy or gory images also dominates the viewers' attention
  • Techniques are used by magicians to divert attention from 'the tell' 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3412382/The-science-magic-tricks-misdirection-pausing-time-experts-reveal-illusions-mess-minds.html#ixzz3yP5Lucin
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segunda-feira, 25 de janeiro de 2016

Infanticídio explítico

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Aborto é coisa do passado, a moda nos EUA agora é o infanticídio explícito.


Uma tendência observada por ativistas pró-vida próximos de estudantes universitários nos EUA, é a crescente aceitação do “aborto pós-nascimento”, ou seja, matar a criança depois que ele ou ela nasceram, afirmam líderes pró-vida ao “The Fix College”.
A evidência anedótica constatada por líderes dos grupos pró-vida como “Criados Iguais” e “Sobreviventes ao Holocausto do Aborto” disseram em entrevistas que não só eles vêem mais estudantes universitários que dizem apoiar o aborto pós-nascimento, mas alguns estudantes ainda sugerem que as crianças até 4 ou 5 de idade também podem ser mortos, porque eles ainda não são “auto-conscientes”.
“Nós encontramos pessoas que pensam que é moralmente aceitável matar bebês após o nascimento em quase todos os campus visitados”, disse Mark Harrington, diretor de “Criados Iguais”. “Enquanto este ponto de vista ainda é considerado absurdo pela esmagadora maioria das pessoas, a idéia está se tornando cada vez mais popular.”
Os campi onde ativistas locais e membros da equipe dos “Criados Iguais” encontraram estudantes com esta opinião incluem Purdue, da Universidade de Minnesota e a Universidade Central da Florida. No estado de Ohio, no início deste ano, o Grupo exibiu um debate entre um dos seus membros e uma senhora no campus que defendia claramente o infanticídio.
“Este é problema que surge quando se desvaloriza a vida humana em alguma de suas fases de desenvolvimento – e esta tendência crescerá e incluirá outras “categorias” de seres humanos; neste caso, já estão incluídos os seres humanos nascidos, bem como os seres humanos ainda não nascidos”. Disse Harrington: ” Eu conversei com um jovem na Universidade de Minnesota, que disse ser correto matar as crianças se fossem menores de 5 anos de idade, pois ele não as considerava pessoas até essa idade.”
Kristina Garza, porta-voz de “Sobreviventes do Holocausto do Aborto”, uma organização pró-vida, que muitas vezes distribui material anti-aborto nos campi ao longo da Costa Oeste, disse que seu grupo também encontra freqüentemente estudantes universitários que aceitam infanticídio.

Manter riqueza é difícil

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT with Jessica Walter and Portia de Rossi

70% of Rich Families Lose Their Wealth by the Second Generation

Carin Baer—20th Century Fox Licensing/Everett CollectionScene from Arrested Development with Jessica Walter and Portia de Rossi

A little honesty might help preserve the family fortune.

When Stephen Lovell used to visit his grandparents as a kid, it was like entering the world of Cole Porter or The Great Gatsby.
People dressed in tuxedos and sipped cocktails. They owned boats, airplanes, a hobby farm. Not to mention a lavish mansion in Ontario, Canada, and a summer home in Southampton, New York.
He estimates that his grandfather, who founded the John Forsyth Shirt Co, had a fortune of at least $70 million in today’s dollars. But through a combination of bad decisions, bad luck, and alcohol dependency, the next generation squandered that money.
“I think about it all the time,” says Lovell, a financial planner in Walnut Creek, California.
Indeed, 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90% by the third, according to the Williams Group wealth consultancy.
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Woodrow Wilson

Until recently, Princeton University’s devotion to Woodrow Wilson was so pervasive and worshipful that visitors to campus might easily have mistaken the modernist parthenon housing the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for a literal temple.
If nothing else, the black students demanding that my alma mater strip the segregationist president’s name from its public-policy school and Wilson College residential complex have accomplished one amazing thing. They’ve forced Princeton to acknowledge that its 13th president, and the nation’s 28th, was not the most nearly perfect human ever to inhabit New Jersey.
As the university continues to debate the protesters’ demands, a new work of intellectual history coincidentally published by Princeton University Press and written by a Princeton faculty member offers a compelling -- though implicit -- case that Wilson’s name is ideally suited for the public-policy school but deeply ironic for the residential college.
Along the way, “Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era,” by Thomas C. Leonard, reveals the largely forgotten intellectual origins of many current controversies, including disputes over tightening voter identification laws, raising the minimum wage and restricting immigration.
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Fim do Bitcoin?

R.I.P. Bitcoin, it’s time to move on

Not long ago, venture capitalists were talking about how Bitcoin was going to transform the global currency system and render governments powerless to police monetary transactions. Now the cryptocurrency is fighting for survival. The reality came to light on January 14, when its influential developer, Mike Hearn, declared Bitcoin a failure and disclosed that he had sold all of his Bitcoins. The price of Bitcoin fell 10% in a single day on the news, a sad result for those who are losing money on it.
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Análise de regressão

The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis

Richard Nisbett [1.21.16]
A huge range of science projects are done with multiple regression analysis. The results are often somewhere between meaningless and quite damaging. ...                             
I hope that in the future, if I’m successful in communicating with people about this, that there’ll be a kind of upfront warning in New York Times articles: These data are based on multiple regression analysis. This would be a sign that you probably shouldn’t read the article because you’re quite likely to get non-information or misinformation.
RICHARD NISBETT is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking; and The Geography of Thought. Richard Nisbett's Edge Bio Page.

THE CRUSADE AGAINST MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
The thing I’m most interested in right now has become a kind of crusade against correlational statistical analysis—in particular, what’s called multiple regression analysis. Say you want to find out whether taking Vitamin E is associated with lower prostate cancer risk. You look at the correlational evidence and indeed it turns out that men who take Vitamin E have lower risk for prostate cancer. Then someone says, "Well, let’s see if we do the actual experiment, what happens." And what happens when you do the experiment is that Vitamin E contributes to the likelihood of prostate cancer. How could there be differences? These happen a lot. The correlational—the observational—evidence tells you one thing, the experimental evidence tells you something completely different.
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Eutanasia para os velhos

FEMINIST CELEB: We need ‘Euthanasia Vans’ to drive around and get rid of all the old people


Katie Hopkins suggests that we create “euthanasia vans” that drives door-to-door and kills off the elderly.
“We just have far too many old people,” the feminist says. “It’s ridiculous to be living in a country where we can put dogs to sleep but not people.”
According to Hopkins, this can be carried out stylistically, you know, with a flair.
“Euthanasia vans — just like ice-cream vans — that would come to your home,” Hopkins says “It would all be perfectly charming. They might even have a nice little tune they’d play. I mean this genuinely. I’m super-keen on euthanasia vans. We need to accept that just because medical advances mean we can live longer, it’s not necessarily the right thing to do.”

HOPKINS: PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA ARE ‘BLOCKING BEDS,’ AND THERE’S NO POINT TO THEIR LIVES

Hopkins’ off-color comments weren’t made completely out of the blue. Great Britain has been wrestling with whether or not to allow assisted suicide for some time now, an idea that’s repeatedly been shot down by the Parliament. But Hopkins is tired of all this concern for human life and wants to see all those gray-hairs six feet under as quickly as possible.
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Escravidão dos brancos

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Os escravos loiros de olhos azuis da Europa

Por Marcelo Andreguetti
Parece bizarro imaginar que Finlândia e Suíça, que hoje estão entre os países com a melhor qualidade de vida no planeta, sofreram com escravidão em suas histórias recentes. Enquanto os finlandeses foram tratados como mercadoria no Mar Negro, entre os séculos XII e XVIII, a Suiça foi manchada por ter feito a prática com seu próprio povo. E isso até, pelo menos, 35 anos atrás.
Antes ainda que o horror da escravidão negra deixasse suas feridas profundas na História, a migração forçada de pessoas para trabalho escravo era uma realidade que assombrava povos que, hoje, passam longe do que poderíamos imaginar sendo explorados.
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domingo, 24 de janeiro de 2016

Como tornar uma recessão numa Grande Depressão

Wie aus einer Rezession eine „Große Depression“ wird
Posted By LvMID On 22. Januar 2016 @ 09:19 In Aktuelles,Zeitloses | Comments Disabled
22.1.2016 – Antony P. Mueller [1].
Teil 1 – Rothbards Analyse der Großen Depression
von Antony Mueller
Murray Rothbards Analyse der Großen Depression hat nichts von ihrer Aktualität eingebüßt. Nicht viel weniger als 1963, als das Buch erstmals erschien, werden auch heute noch viele der Grundaussagen auf Widerspruch stoßen. Die in „America’s Great Depression“ [3] vertretenen Thesen standen diametral der damals vorherrschenden Lehre entgegen. Neuere Forschungen haben aber bestätigt, was Rothbard aufgezeigt hat.
Seit Rothbards Darlegung wissen wir, dass der staatliche Interventionismus schon unter der Regierung von Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) begann und dazu beigetragen hat, die Rezessionen zu vertiefen. Präsident Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) hat dann anschließend nicht nur die interventionistische Politik Hoovers fortgesetzt, sondern noch verschlimmert. Bei Roosevelt trat zum Interventionismus noch eine massive antikapitalistische Rhetorik hinzu. Die Ausweitung der Staatseingriffe auf Löhne und Preise machte dann schließlich aus der Rezession eine „große“ Depression. Aufgrund der neuen Erkenntnisse [4] ist es nicht mehr vertretbar, die These zu verkünden, die Große Depression sei das Resultat der freien Marktwirtschaft gewesen, und nur aufgrund staatlicher Intervention sei es zu einer Erholung gekommen...
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Critica de Piketty

Forthcoming, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics
Measured, Unmeasured, Mismeasured,
and Unjustified Pessimism:
A Review Essay of Thomas Piketty’s
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey1
Thomas Piketty has written a big book, 577 pages of text, 76 pages of notes, 115 charts, tables, and graphs, that has excited the left, worldwide. “Just as we said!” the leftists cry. “The problem is Capitalism and its inevitable tendency to inequality!” First published in French in 2013, an English edition was issued by Harvard University Press in 2014 to wide acclaim by columnists such as Paul Krugman, and a top position on the New York Times best-seller list. A German edition came out in late 2014, and Piketty—who must be exhausted by all this—worked overtime expositing his views to large German audiences. He plays poorly on TV, because he is lacking in humor, but he soldiers on, and the book sales pile up. Mais

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sábado, 23 de janeiro de 2016

Manipulações em jornais acadêmicos

Fudging hell

Are results in top journals to be trusted? 

PUBLICATION bias in academic journals is nothing new. A finding of no correlation between sporting events and either violent crime or property crime may be analytically top class, but you couldn’t be blamed, frankly, for not giving a damn. But if journal editors are more interested in surprising or dramatic results, there is a danger that the final selection of published papers offer a distorted vision of reality.
This should skew the distribution of published results, towards more 'significant' findings. But a paper just published in the American Economic Journal finds evidence of a different sort of bias, closer to the source. Called "Star Wars, the empirics strike back", it analyses 50,000 papers published between 2005 and 2011 in three top American journals. It finds that the distribution of results (as measured by z-score, a measure of how far away a result is from the expected mean) has a funny double-humped shape (see chart). The dip between the humps represents "missing" results, which just happen to be in a range just outside the standard cut-off point for statistical significance (where significance is normally denoted with stars, though the name may also be something to do with a film recently released—file under 'economists trying to be funny'). Their results suggest that among the results that are only just significant, 10-20% have been fudged.
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Carta para Stephen Hawking por Don Boudreaux

Dear Prof. Hawking
After reading your comments about technology creating mass unemployment and causing dangerous degrees of economic inequality in the absence of government-enforced wealth “redistribution” (“Stephen Hawking says we should really be scared of capitalism, not robots,” Church and State, Nov. 2015), I wondered what an economist might say if he or she pronounced authoritatively on matters studied by experts in the physical sciences.  That economist might well offer the following description of physical reality:
“I’m convinced – by a widely held and time-tested popular belief – that the universe was created 6,000 years ago, over the course of six earth days, by God.  God also designed and created whole all plants and animals as we know them.  (In addition, God created countless fossils that he uses to test our faith by presenting false evidence that creatures roamed the earth and swam the seas millions of years earlier.)
“Further, the allegedly ‘scientific’ truth that neither light nor anything else can travel faster than 3 X 10^8 meters per second is false.  I know this ‘truth’ to be false because, having seen many movies and television shows featuring faster-than-light-speed travel, I have no difficulty imagining such super-fast travel.  And I’m quite confident that, if I and many other people can imagine something to be true – such as faster-than-light-speed travel – then that something is indeed true.”
The above, Prof. Hawking, is, as you know, what people who know nothing of physics often sound like when they rely upon popular myths and personal intuition to make sense of physical reality.  And it’s pretty much what you, a brilliant physicist who knows nothing of economics, sound like when you rely upon popular myths and personal intuition to make sense of economic reality.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics
and
Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
…..
A pernicious myth is that justly acknowledged excellence in a field other than economics – such as acting, sports, politics, or physics – qualifies a person to pronounce authoritatively on economic matters.

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Eugenia

The Dark History of Liberal Reform

A new history of early 20th-century American progressivism puts eugenics at the center.

The 1926 case Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes is a favorite liberal American story. On one side, a substitute accused of teaching evolution, the famed progressive attorney Clarence Darrow, and science itself. On the other, the state of Tennessee, creationism, and the populist demagogue William Jennings Bryan, who by the end of the trial was only days from death. Scopes lost the battle, but reason and progress won the war and the film adaptation. The Scopes Monkey Trial, as it was called, is a progressive touchstone, and in the minds of many it continues to describe the difference between the two mainstream American political ideologies.
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