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Why Money?

Money as stored power, and labor, to be used at other times?

Money as potential energy? 

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smuggler –> someone who doesn’t want to pay taxes

Control over the mercantile network

The doge in Venice

Who takes half your money

Energy flow

Pontifex Maximus

Democratic is often bad?

–> Apple as the ultimate democratizing thing

200 basis point spreads

Amsterdam -> distribution center

It is useful to have god on your side

Create the religion for political and economic reasons

Center of empire

Create economic density

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1 export in America is security

Blows up

The most dangerous industry?

Difficult technologies

100 story skyscraper

Steel is the perfect material for civil engineering –> cheap

Steel will last forever

Cold rolled steel

Steel is strongest of strong

No steel no bridges

No bridges no manhattan

Makeup is for ugly people?

Aluminum is 20x more expensive than steel

Aluminum flies

Trillion dollar industry

Civilization

Energy Network

We are not alike

1900-1950: conquer infectious diseases

People with tuberculosis –> 1B people death sentence

1/2 penicillin antibiotics and sterilization half of history books

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People bleeding themselves to death?

Think population

Defeat tuberculosis

Fungus

Think modular clothing?

Don’t channel people in any direction too much

Accidental breakthrough

1/2 of breakthroughs are accidental
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What is muscle? A store of power

Latent energy

Nobody cares for your token! The biggest issue with tokens is that you could just keep producing them

For example, if you are an arcade, the Peter Pan arcade, then as a consequence, you could keep making these tokens ad infinitum 

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The Black Eagle

The warberghs

Mobile Capital

Harder, faster stronger

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Smile!

Bitcoin Theory –> I’m excited about this!

The first digital monetary system,

Perfected . 200B market cap

100B of monetary energy

95%-99% doesn’t believe in them?

Fire unleashed, too big to fail

Exothermal

Collapsing into lower energy state

For a nickel? Massive Dematerialize of value

Steam to water to ice

Giving off energy

How important is energy to the human race?

The bodybuilder ERIC KIM

PHASE TRANSITION

Money is the highest form of energy humans can channel?

What is money

Why does money matter

Missle –> kinetic energy

Aqueduct water and gravity

Weight and weight lifting is gravity

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Money as battery

Lose 2% a month, lose 24% of your energy a year?

24% inflation a year

$100M of energy and electricity you gotta use it today!

Gold : claim of saving

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Think mobile

$100M of energy 100 years into the future

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Laptop charged in attic for 100 years

Gold will last in vault 100 years

1900–> USA vault, we are the most successful, JPMORGAN remains NYC…. 2% miner rate of gold

35 years

100M–35M in 70 years , 12.5M in 100 years

Gold battery drained

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Don’t trust people with small dogs

Over a long enough time the mortality rate is 100%

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Variable defense

Variable

Why Save?

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Commodity is bad

Don’t be commoditized

Branding

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Stability is Key

Electricity > Apple

Public Utility

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Boring?

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$5 vs. $250,000

50,000x cheaper!

Crypto rails

Vacuum

Age 72–

The dark ages

Study the dark ages and the Great Depression

Waste 1,000 years?

25,000 pictographs … wrong alphabet for printing press

1453 for Gutenberg

Suffer 1,000 years?

My Legacy is Invisible

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Trajan Statue

Holding the world and it is round!

100AD

significant civilization regression

Leap Forward

Pottery wheel ,,, roll it?

Invent the rolling wagon–> turn it this way??

Homes with uneven floors?

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Bitcoin and blockchain is a wheel!

Wheel of Money

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Follow your instincts

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Intermarry

Control the religion

Energy flow

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Security

Ghenghis Khan… mongols

Bitcoin #1– secure energy and money

Defensive Power

Defensive Armor

Armor is more important than weapons?

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1000x stronger or faster or harder?

Energy storage device

1000x more energy?

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Don’t leak energy

Value prop … doesn’t kill you

Bleed 2% battery a year

Think storage?

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Think 1T photo business?

Growth company

Age 72–

The dark ages

Study the dark ages and the Great Depression

Waste 1,000 years?

25,000 pictographs … wrong alphabet for printing press

1453 for Gutenberg

Suffer 1,000 years?

My Legacy is Invisible

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Trajan Statue

Holding the world and it is round!

100AD

significant civilization regression

Leap Forward

Pottery wheel ,,, roll it?

Invent the rolling wagon–> turn it this way??

Homes with uneven floors?

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Bitcoin and blockchain is a wheel!

Wheel of Money

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Follow your instincts

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Intermarry

Control the religion

Energy flow

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Security

Ghenghis Khan… mongols

Bitcoin #1– secure energy and money

Defensive Power

Defensive Armor

Armor is more important than weapons?

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1000x stronger or faster or harder?

Energy storage device

1000x more energy?

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Don’t leak energy

Value prop … doesn’t kill you

Bleed 2% battery a year

Think storage?

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Think 1T photo business?

Growth company

How to start thinking, start walking

Flow rate

Become Tank

Tank

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Modern day cyber tank

CyberTank

CYBER TANK

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HYDRAULIC POWER

trench

Moat

Natural tidal basin

Lobester men

Farm lobster not catch 

Don’t live in hotel

Free room and board until I eat you until you’re 70

Do you want to live in a lobster hotel?

Domesticated Lobsters

We don’t seek energy efficiency?

Hydraulic elevator, water pyramid

100,000 tons of stones using water

500kg lift

502 kg lift ?

1,250 pounds?

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Cradle of civilization water

San torini

Sissy

A river of donkey doo

Animal power is gross

100 pound weight vest

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Sanitation is #1

Metaphorical Sanitation

Narrow streets no donkeys

Roman knights –> equestrian class

Top .1%–>

The right to bring a horse into the city

Sanitation is a privilege?

How to move goods around?

Clean energy sources

Ports, boats

Man & Environment

The mediterran is perfect

Phoenician empires

Venetian Empire

Tour the great ports

Port Power

Control the ports ***

Think Ships?

The philosophy of XX training

Break Necks

Neck Breaker

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Convert car power into human leg power?

Nobody is badder than me

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3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 months without food ***

70% water?

Don’t give toxic

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Cry tears of blood?

Overcome gravity with water and boats

The Iron Age

Being harder and stronger

The Bitcoin Age?

Orientation tour

19–> 5,000 people, officer 20s, 30s…

Old man is 41–

Number 2 is 38

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Top 12 in entire navy

“Everybody needs their turn”

Their hope to be captain –> captain of aircraft carrier

Get out of the way, give them their chance!

Anyone can be president

Become Mayor?

“One day you’ll have your turn–“

700 years

You’re a Roman first

That is the Roman way

Mothers Day

The American Way?

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No apologies about it

700 year republic

No Fair Fight

Spear in the gut

Unfair advantage ***

Think Siege Tank

Livy —

Get the high ground

Unleash artillery

Rain down hell from above!

Gauls

80% of them maimed

Real War?

Carthaginians

Mistral

Reusable standardized parts

Labeled each part, number of parts … steal blueprint

90 days later, 150 ships

War has a way of quickening activity

Romans stole all the good ideas

First Punic war

Standardize the wagons

Anti Death

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Study your own civilization and culture

Standardized protocols

Think Standard

Standardized Money

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The Decisive Moment

Timing

The camera as a weapon or defense THING

Think Defense

Play Defense

Linebacker Approach to Life

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Pain doesn’t lie

What’s QE?

I’m the next JAY Z?

Becoming the next Jay Z?

Macro economic strategy

Economic “freedom”?

Value Proposition

There is no such thing as a fair fight

Apex predator in nature

Nature is cruel

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How to thrive in a hostile universe

Stronger means stronger defense?

Bitcoin, fire in cyberspace … Prometheus

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Cooked food, cook food … 10x more metabolically effective

Brain size … modern day brain size getting smaller?

Fire to See

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Muscle is converted power in the human body?

The most robust car ,,, Prius?

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Man is the only animal which plays with power

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Evolve

Duration

Think Duration

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Harness fire

Missle

Sling, arrows, 100k year old arrow heads

Leverage whip arm as lever

Lead bullets

10,000 BC… lead bullets

You figure things out when your survival depends on it

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Lead bullet

Hunt or defend

Asymmetrical warfare

The kill zone

Sun advantage

SMART terrain

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Deliver Force

Force delivery –>

Don’t engage

Just do what you do

Innovation

Fire & Water

Wave action is incredible energy

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Think about wheels or on barge in water

Can push with one hand

Hydraulic power

Beaver –> natures engineer

Beaver chops down trees

Into dam

Channel river floods the pond

Read the pond

Make lodge under water

Water is elemental to life

Pond creates a vibrant ecosystem … grows a lot of stuff

Beavers fix the dams

Industrious

What does that mean to humanity

Oil is money and power

Oil is not wealth

Water is wealth **->> key to life

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20’000 a year to make palm trees in the desert

$100M a year?

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Just live off the fish?

Water is infinite

500 fishes

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Fish with dynamite

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Pull out 1 a day

Human time is only resource?

The only true scarcity we have as humans is limited time on planet earth? 

The real cost of a good is the human time devoted to actually producing it? 

Human labor is the ultimate labor 

Technological solutions to problems?

We humans are actually the ultimate resource? The more humans reproduce, the more resources we have? 

Productive  ideas drive production and economy

How to store your time for the future?

Money as a store of time? ***

Bitcoin is the cheapest way to buy the future

Money is a saving technology, a store of value technology? Imputing money or cash with human labor and time?

Bitcoin as reserve currency?

Adopt bitcoin reserves

The integrity of the network is the value?

Immutability, resistance to change




WOLF

“I’m a dog… roof!” – MIGOS

What if there was such a thing as a free lunch?

Apparently the number one rule in economics is this notion that there is no such thing as a free lunch. But, if in fact, the truth was that there was such thing as a free lunch… How would this change things?

Secure capital you control

–> you control

Upside of renting … you won’t be there forever neither will they?

Harder, faster, stronger …>>>

Aces given power

Impossible to kill –> best abilities

Defense is #1***

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I’m looking for the fight, so I’ll absorb their thing

I’m looking for a fight?

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America … naturally we got good defense

Very hard to move stuff over oceans

People who cannot BE killed?

Goal –> to be unkillable?

Immortal

Never aging
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Infinitely hard

After the founder dies …

Think crypto 100 years from now or 300 years from now?

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Air power

Air power from navy power

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Control your own airspace

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High ground

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Geographic and terrain

Terrain advantages?

VPN

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LEAKING

It never works until it works

Learned individuals don’t make the breakthrough

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Not developed by professors

Tinkerers

How to Innovate

Competitive advantage

The internet is bad?

Most Technology is Bad?

Fake reality

“Any industry in which people complain about their asshole boss is likely part of the bezzle, because bosses can only really afford to be assholes in the economic fake reality of the bezzle”

Excerpt From
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-bitcoin-standard/id1396764099

No such thing as a free lunch, number one rule in economics

Produce something of value ***

–> the secret the pathway is entrepreneurship self-employment, sole proprietorship

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Why does unemployment matter?

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Once you get caught, it ain’t a big deal

Barebones simplicity 

Assume that all foreign nodes are potential attackers?

Assume that everyone else is hostile?

Assume that everyone is dishonest?

Nothing is forever. 

Digital “cash”?

Gold as money that nobody can print 

Proof and verification

Difficulty adjustment

100,000,000 Satoshis

Keep stacking those Satoshis

It can’t even be interrupted

Hard to kill

Strong people are harder to kill?

Maybe the point is just to not be killed? Or not able to be killed?

Inelastic

The difficulty of producing new coins  

Digital scarcity

Copying versus sending

Absolute scarcity 

Inflation schedule is immutable

Real cost versus fake cost? Real cost include time effort and labor

When people continue to hold the currency the value goes up?

The more people who hold the higher value 

The more hodler’s, the batter

Bitcoin as a store value, not as a medium of exchange

Making money with bitcoin through processing fees?

The more volatile, the more fun and interesting

A life without volatility is not a life worth living

The more volatility in life, the more fun and better life?

Focusing on defense is more profitable

War is Bad

“Ownership”?

Economic output is human time and labor

Purchasing power

Enslaving man for his own good?

To “free” man in the future?

Why do we humans have a hard time thinking about numbers money and finances

Purchasing power is important, not the absolute quantity?

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Sound businesses create value for society and people

More productive firms

Undead but not truly alive

Zombies

Burden, not productive assets for society

Devaluing existing money holdings

nefarious schemes

Allocate your capital to the investments which seem most productive

Government “funding”

A free marketplace of ideas

A productive banker?

Just let them die, no bailout.

bad ego vs good ego 

Bad ego is when you do something contrary to your own belief system, in order to stunt on other people.

The Bitcoin Standard is Lit!

A sign of a very good book: I think 90% of it is just focused on rethinking and reteaching and rechallenging old economic theories… I’ve read a lot of the book already, and I think the author only mentions bitcoin twice thus far.

Independent thinking

Bit Thoughts

Drivers

“Tell me your secrets”!

Military Complex

–> don’t cling onto the old thing!

Anathema

Heroics?

Humans don’t like non romantic stories

–> maybe the bank is obsolete?

99% of you got beat by the index

.01% of the cost

Asymmetric warfare

The most to gain the least to lose?

Feel like a pilot –> why, for the sake of what?

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Burn it into it

How to fight the AI bots?

Orange Check Verified

Open Permissionless and ethical

Closed protocols … proprietary is bad

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Open standards for authentications

10 Gigawatts of power

Millions of mining rigs –> many years of manufacturing?

Military using Bitcoin?

Encrypted messages

3,500 exahash–> 90%

51% attack? –> 20 minutes not 10 minutes

150 Gigawatt

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Bitcoin represents the most secure systems

Defended by raw power and energy

Machine gun in cyberspace as offensive weapon

Defense system

Cybernetic fence

Defend your own cyberspace

Protect the documents?

Cyber defense system

–> I like the aesthetics

Bitcoin as cyber defense system

You need to be invincible ***-> the ultimate super power

You’re going to win

Invincible but mortal?

Invincible and immortal –> Bitcoin

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Distance is a big deal

Americans, starting to have more fascination with machines, cars, things and stuff… A sign of degeneracy? Of downward going?

Of under going?

Over going or under going?

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Auto immune disease –> your own body attacks yourself

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Nobody prefers the second best in security –> nobody knows what second best is?

Cyber security system –> how much energy needed to break it?

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1-10 people can break it

Bitcoin is energy over time


Hash rate

Analog to electricity to computing power

Proof of stake doesn’t work *

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DILF

4B of Bitcoin –> USA

$10B of Bitcoin owned by USA

$100B of Bitcoin

$100B risk free

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All physical power is military power

The top 300 Indian tribes

10,000 tribes which got squeezed out –> we don’t lament them

No power, no hope for you

Cyber power

Economic, physical, mental, political health ***

A family must control its space

Create the hard money

Digital integrity –> truth machine. Double spend problem

Keep the money on the network for 100 years

The killer app is money

Forget being forgotten

BRC20 tokens

New apps

Economic theory

How do I “brand” something?

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JPMORGAN .. 2500 year old ivory seal collection

Ledgers of money –> immutable bake the clay

Seal it, show it is official

A brand, a key

Private key

We the best not the first

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There is no second best thing ***

Everything else is fragile and corruptible

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The most powerful cyber network in the world

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Orange is the color

How to develop on Bitcoin

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Assuming that I am my own US military swat team, super soldier fund or whatever… How would I create and design myself?

If I had control over the budget to create a super soldier, what would it look like?

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Destructive or constructive?

Mental defense. Fund your defense, not your offense the joy of just being left alone.

Money is Potential Energy?

Kinetic & potential energy

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Assets withhold value versus assets which don’t?

Purchasing power

Prices of real good and services

Immediate consumption versus future potential consumption?

Differ consumption now, in order to increase consumption in the long run?

Corrupt and toxic

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Unsound money and war

Cooperation > Conflict –> if you have to continue dealing with them on a larger time horizon 


Funny New Rule

You’re only allowed to use your iPad or iPhone when you’re outside, never inside?

Free Trade

Monetary nationalism is bad 

Running a productive company 

Competitive advantage 

Individual freedom 

What is the purpose of taxes? 

Creating new value?

Mutually beneficial exchange

Denying enterprise the right to produce good money 

“Hayek put it: “The cause of waves of unemployment is not ‘capitalism’ but governments denying enterprise the right to produce good money.”19

Excerpt From
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-bitcoin-standard/id1396764099
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Rigor vs Logic

Critique of modern day academics and scholars: too much folks on rigor, not enough focus on why it actually matters?

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