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mircea_popescu: idem stupid, idem desocialized. the fundamental problem is that they believe a lie, and the lie became more important than anything, and as such they literally live in those vats.
mircea_popescu: and for the exact same reason, entirely lost real anchoring.
mircea_popescu: lazy, stupid and desocialized, but not at all for genetic reasons. they're lazy like a schizophrenic patient with waxy paralysis is "lazy".
asciilifeform: i thought these were folx with 'no two empanadas to rub together'
mircea_popescu: no, they're ustards^2. they "just want things to be good"
mircea_popescu: resolving the "live as dog or die as rat" dilemma by "it's easier to die as rat" seems stupid, but then again who knows what goes on through old whore's head. (her ass.)
asciilifeform insufficiently familiar with the oldwhore et al to expand on this
mircea_popescu: old woman says yes to one, then yes to another, then yes again to the first
a111: Logged on 2016-07-18 00:48 asciilifeform whistles the impalement theme from 'ogniem i mieczem'...
mircea_popescu: which yes, do include arresting turner if he shows up within the borders.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would have taken these pesos, on some reasonable conditions.
asciilifeform: my understanding was that ~nobody actually ~wants~ these pesos
mircea_popescu: with the requisite deals, certainly.
asciilifeform: in the requisite qty ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would take their playmoneyz ?
asciilifeform: paint the picture for my education: where should the gang have bought btc ?
asciilifeform: what's else to buy? gold? and then sell where?
asciilifeform: yes the cars are worth a tenth. so.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 16:14 mircea_popescu: they do this. president cash-bought 100+ cars as "retirement"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 15:52 asciilifeform: The issue with these chips is that they don’t receive Bluetooth’s frequent security updates.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510311 << you first split the pot by self-sending, then send off the splits. the speciffic attack is discussed in the logs, iirc davout even had a mock implementation back when it looked like the imbeciles may be dumb enough to need the stick applied physically.
mircea_popescu: they do this. president cash-bought 100+ cars as "retirement"
mircea_popescu: they have some sort of tribal arrangement, but fuck me if i can explain it sensibly.
asciilifeform: who exactly will cash-buy the $150K cockroach flats in buenos aires ?
asciilifeform: and looking at the ar real estate catalogue, i would bet same is true there
asciilifeform: i cannot speak for the rest
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in ru most are mortgaged to the hilt now
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 15:27 thestringpuller: coinbase signs an ETH-HF tx, so then attacker takes same transaction and announces it on the other chain
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510308 << doh. as was explained back in the day we for the first time in "the blockchain technology space" explained how a hard fork resolves economically, cca 2014ish. meanwhile the "technology leaders" of one intern and rented offices got a little overrun by events.
mircea_popescu: we have a sign inversion and they have a graph crossing.
mircea_popescu: first, "epsilon" going the wrong way. soon enough, that's 10% then 1000% then infinity% AND STILL KEEPS GROWING.
asciilifeform: who the hell lives in 500 in usa ?!
mircea_popescu: it was epsilon back in the day, when the shit was getting started, 1980s.
asciilifeform: well the only thing behind the 5000 is that the workerbee owes 5000-epsilon
mircea_popescu: how to ruin a beautiful thing. start taking in the ustardian propaganda, actually believe it, there you go.
mircea_popescu: "why live in sane country making 500 a month ? come to AMERICA!!!11 make 5000 a month except pay 3000 here and 1800 there and 300 there and 50 there and 15 rthere and no you can't stop these fucking terrorist, you want to bring your own tribal ways to civilisation ?!?!?! make 5000 a month means you owe 500 each month! doh!"
mircea_popescu: there was that, also. separate.
mircea_popescu: back in communist romania, "oamenii muncii" ie the "men of working" had to pay whatever off paycheck each month for "investments". just about the same thing, really.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it, it's a fucking great ploy to get people perma-subscribed to those "services" like they're perma-subscribed to "paying MIT & friends hedge funds".
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 15:11 mats: they offered three years of free identity theft protection and monitoring services, fucking useless
mircea_popescu: lmao trinque there also is that!
trinque: surely by now no one around here is taking pride in his mastery of the great english language.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 14:13 felipelalli: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-16#1503818 << mircea_popescu a) the main issue to me is the language, I'm afraid w/ my English, I'd like to dominate more than I do. b) I'm sorry for that too. It's being very hard to keep up to date here, you guys are too fast for me! :) Also again the language is an obstacle sometimes which makes 3x harder to undertand than the normal.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510292 << the language is an obstacle in understanding just like the hymen is an obstacle in fucking. grind that shit down! then it won't be an obstacle anymore.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck runs tor, hillary's campaign management ? "shit positively known not to work, will be sold as distributed and hipstery". THE WOMAN IS LOSING ON THIS SCRITP! IT DUN WERK!!!111
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 13:12 jurov: According to the Tor developers, the new design will deploy a distributed random generation system that has "never been deployed before on the Internet."
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510286 << god almighty. this may be the dumbest thing i ever heard.
BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> well the coinbase story thickens << Note edit I made to your coinbase story
asciilifeform: wake me up for the long pig barbecue.
mircea_popescu: unfortunately, the eu is more ineffectual than even argentina.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510282 << eu also plans to sell me a few hundred daughters and sisters of politicians by the pound for salami purposes.
asciilifeform: The issue with these chips is that they don’t receive Bluetooth’s frequent security updates.
asciilifeform: 'The KeySniffer vulnerability affects wireless keyboards from eight different hardware manufacturers that use cheap transceiver chips (non-Bluetooth chips) – a less secure, radio-based communication protocol.
asciilifeform: in other 'yesterday's nobel is tommorrow's homework' noose, http://thehackernews.com/2016/07/wireless-keylogger.html
jurov: one has to repeatedly send to self addresses, till there's desired result on both chains, no?
thestringpuller: coinbase signs an ETH-HF tx, so then attacker takes same transaction and announces it on the other chain
thestringpuller: people are stealing ETC from them
thestringpuller: well the coinbase story thickens
mats: they offered three years of free identity theft protection and monitoring services, fucking useless
deedbot: [Qntra] Coinbase Fumbling Through Ether Huffing Fork Experience - http://qntra.net/2016/07/coinbase-fumbling-through-ether-huffing-fork-experience/
felipelalli: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-16#1503818 << mircea_popescu a) the main issue to me is the language, I'm afraid w/ my English, I'd like to dominate more than I do. b) I'm sorry for that too. It's being very hard to keep up to date here, you guys are too fast for me! :) Also again the language is an obstacle sometimes which makes 3x harder to undertand than the normal.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
jurov: According to the Tor developers, the new design will deploy a distributed random generation system that has "never been deployed before on the Internet."
asciilifeform: this database is part of a regulatory push that the EU got rolling after the Paris November 2015 terror attacks, and which it officially put forward in February 2016, and later approved at the start of July 2016. Legally, this is an attempt to reform the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD).'
asciilifeform: '"The European Commission is proposing the creation of a database that will hold information on users of virtual currencies," reports Softpedia. "The database will record data on the user's real world identity, along with all associated wallet addresses." The database will be made available to financial investigation agencies in order to track down users behind suspicious operations. The creation of
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: somehow the dot became so deeply "concat strings" that i'd first check "who the fuck is regexping this" perhaps ; but it'd never occur to me to say "you know what - it saw a dot it's now looking at a class"
asciilifeform: (the marksman's head, but how is he to know)
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 03:25 mircea_popescu: anyway, i fucking hate the notion of "implicit object".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510257 << always despised perl for this (among 1,001 other) reason
mircea_popescu: anyway, i fucking hate the notion of "implicit object".
lru: is there a way to extract help from the deedbot?
lru: the question was about "holy shit javascript" not "fucking javascript" :-)
lru: a.b is the same as a['b'], since nearly everything in javascript is an object
lru: a.b is asking for the 'b' property in the object a, which is undefined (the type, not the string), but since types can be automatically converted, and you're working with strings, the undefined type may have been turned into a string depending on use
a111: Logged on 2016-07-26 20:05 asciilifeform: in other nyooz, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/smeg.jpg
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-26#1510077 << that's the kind of stuff you see at those new retro places, like marivana
mircea_popescu: really ? who thought this makes sense and how did they figure it ?
mircea_popescu: in other holy shit javascript, a.b where a, b are strings results in the STRING "undefined" ; whereas a.concat(b) results in a string that's a followed by b.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-17 01:50 asciilifeform: decimation: 'telco 214' is the owner of a single ip which houses, as far as i can tell, at least 2% of current net hash.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-26 22:26 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you recall the meanwhile-forgotten name of the derp who was doing this "oh i am a miner hurr" posturing maybe 6 months or so ago ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-26#1510186 << what i'd like to know is what became of that ~other~, quiet usg miner
ben_vulpes: the brainbleach where is it
ben_vulpes: never underestimate the pain of having to scrape a bumper sticker off your 2015 wrx
BingoBoingo: Which is why if one owns a Ranch one must always include "no fat chicks" on their brand. Otherwise horses take quick trip to factory of glue
BingoBoingo: Basically the contrast is Trump tried to kill the GOP, suceeded. Hillary rode the DNC and happened to kill it in the process.
mircea_popescu: trump's having such a marked advantage so early, on top of a campaign entirely predicated on flattening everything and everyone (and implicitly "the man") draws that chunk of idiots in like shit draws flies.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the truth of the matter is that us citizens have no intellect or spine. a good third of the electorate just wants to vote with whoever's winning so as to then have voted for the winner. that's it.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck did they spend all that money on smartphones and college debt ; and all that time on social media then ?
mircea_popescu: you know, the low information voters and assorted clueless idiots take a week longer than the rednecks to form an opinion. hurr.
mircea_popescu: http://news.alternet.org/files/screen_shot_2016-07-25_at_6.22.30_pm.png << the graph of ridiculous dreamer "hope". check that shit out, the idiots in the vats are actually saying the hillary electorare IS SLOW.
mircea_popescu: it's ~the only reasonable move for the us ; but on the other hand it'd make the dotcom bust look like frog's piss in comparison to the bath the globalist "modern democracy" imbeciles would take.
BingoBoingo: Anyways I guess that's the other thing from selecting a midwestern nowhere I forgot to offer asciilifeform, if it took the world wars to get the local paper to print in English the town is probably better than others.
mircea_popescu: fucking hillary clinton, all of them. "very important" and a big deal and "informed" and bla bla for the five fucking minutes the show's on. just like any stripper cum tv anchor / us "corporation" etcetera.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and wtf is with the "up to" menu. really, 400 dollars buys me "up to a steak" ? fuck that, how about his steak gets him UP TO 400 bucks, whatever i happen to have in my pocket. << German settlement can not prevent every UStard idiocy from intruding
mircea_popescu: there you go.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you recall the meanwhile-forgotten name of the derp who was doing this "oh i am a miner hurr" posturing maybe 6 months or so ago ?
mircea_popescu: o btw, how's chandler guo doing ? shall we add yet another skull of an usg-astroturfed-miner to the collection ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck came up with this idiocy already.
mircea_popescu: and wtf is with the "up to" menu. really, 400 dollars buys me "up to a steak" ? fuck that, how about his steak gets him UP TO 400 bucks, whatever i happen to have in my pocket.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-26 20:38 asciilifeform: and would be quite busy, e.g., buggering dead badgers to the tune of a banjo, or whatever it is that one does there.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-26#1510113 << really, one does ~exactly what you do : keeps the fuck out of the way of neighbours and works on own pet projects.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-26#1510108 << this is altogether not such a bad idea. if halon gotta pay hazmat to fly, fatass sure as fuck gotta pay hazmat to be in airport.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-26 20:21 BingoBoingo: Because 'Murica. Every now and then a disgruntled customer is going to shit on the floor. That's how food service works.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-26 18:33 asciilifeform: i thought orlov was stretching the truth, but apparently not - the new Official Narrative is 'trump is ru agent'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-26#1510069 << high up there in the top of idiocies ustards will eat up.
BingoBoingo: It is one way to start getting familiar with the culture
asciilifeform: other things - not so much.
asciilifeform: there is such a thing as 'farmer's almanac'
BingoBoingo: It is agriCULTURE not agriGoogleandhopeforthebest
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Because one can not agriculture without having agricultured before
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If ford and chevy offer cardboard wagon and you build actual metal truck to serve your need where is the problem?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: then the matchstick chariot i made as a kid, pulled by beetles, is competition for ferrari.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: when you say 'competition', do you mean that you can get fiber from the other 2 ?
BingoBoingo: Sure but verizon units as they were when offloaded so here copper
BingoBoingo: The win is Verizon doesn't eat and Verizon isn't here anymore. Competition is Charter and Frontier.
asciilifeform: so where is the win ?
asciilifeform: (at the GB tier, actually $100 MOAR)
asciilifeform: so far my working hypothesis is that there is no fiber because it dun work on a yacht.
asciilifeform: why would they
BingoBoingo: Ah, so their problem is they don't work
BingoBoingo: Coastiness also promotes more itinerants and less people attached to their location
BingoBoingo: And these criteria on their own are not enough
BingoBoingo: Your problem is the coastiness
asciilifeform: and incidentally i am pretty sure that at this very moment i am in a town where the nearest foodstamp recipient is a full day's walk away.
BingoBoingo: And nearest food stamp, HUD, Social Services office, is either a half hours drive away or a full day's walk away
BingoBoingo: Towns of that magical size where they can be like "fuck it, let the churches do the welfare"
BingoBoingo: By the people who live in the towns with 5kilo-20kilo people and want the internet to not suck, but they towns aren't so big demoocracy and Rhonda get in the way
asciilifeform: and would be quite busy, e.g., buggering dead badgers to the tune of a banjo, or whatever it is that one does there.
asciilifeform: yeah but then i'd be in smalltownmidwest.
BingoBoingo: I think the political action committee for that is still 2-5 years away
BingoBoingo: Phun Phact, The ark of the covenant was where the Jooz kept their GPG keys
asciilifeform pictures BingoBoingo building himself a house, then licensing with the city as 'grade A abbatoir' just-in-case...
BingoBoingo: Why plan to limit the subset of acceptable activities when opening your commercial space to the public?
asciilifeform: what does BingoBoingo do atop of these, such that they require cleaning ?
asciilifeform: (the 100 is a minimum)
BingoBoingo: At least in the United States
BingoBoingo: Because 'Murica. Every now and then a disgruntled customer is going to shit on the floor. That's how food service works.
asciilifeform: i generally do not go to places where you eat off the floor...
BingoBoingo: Anyways the reason you can't use anything other than concrete is there's no way to deep clean the lesser floor materials
BingoBoingo: Otherwise how are servers going to evacuate 1000 pound customers with the electric pallet jack and the fork truck?
asciilifeform: and pretty common outside of the mcfood world
asciilifeform: i thought orlov was stretching the truth, but apparently not - the new Official Narrative is 'trump is ru agent'
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo Similarly ten percent of the mining interest in the Buterin blessed << more like 20 really.
asciilifeform: (why they put it ~there~, i have nfi)
mircea_popescu: o look at that, thestringpuller had the eth lulz in the logs earlier. wd eh.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: reminds me of 1990s gem 'the mizarian mice'
BingoBoingo: ty, fxing though Hastert did have a thing for entering the breech
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: then it does not function
asciilifeform: i set up an sks node at one point but barfed when i learned that i would have to ask heathens for PERMISSION
shinohai: asciilifeform: it is a hypothetical keyserver
BingoBoingo: The way I imagine it working is you have your assistant/slave/general following you and capturing incidents of you oppressing those who require it, and based on how many points of "Glories" you collect, you get to reward yourself however you wish.
deedbot: [Qntra] Ether Huffing Ecosystem Loses 10% Mining Interest Overnight, Hashrate On Bailout Free Chain Climbing - http://qntra.net/2016/07/ether-huffing-ecosystem-loses-10-mining-interest-overnight-hashrate-on-bailout-free-chain-climbing/
BingoBoingo: Not in the form I imagine it.
asciilifeform: doubless, they have it.
asciilifeform: ' If you are supposed to think and act like a hegemon, but only the thinking part still works, then the result is cognitive dissonance.'
BingoBoingo: But thestringpuller this one could use double coverage since gloating
mircea_popescu: such is the wonderful if suicidal power of hard forks, and stephen tual pretending like he's a person, who may speak and have opinions, rather than admitting he's cattle, and should be sold by the pound off hooks in butcheries for a discount over pork bellies.
mircea_popescu: it's that the whole scam ecosystem went from 4298.0+164.7 = 4462 to 3529.7+523.3=4053 ie a ~10% loss of interest overnight.
mircea_popescu: it's not only that scamcoin-with-bailouts lost 20% in the past 18 hours.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: lol look at un-bailed out ethereum version, tripled overnight ?
thestringpuller: oh wow they have 10% of the hasspower now up from 5%
thestringpuller: you can see the difficulty rising on eth stats
jurov: thestringpuller: cited reasons?
deedbot: [Qntra] US Standards Institute Prepares To "Ban" SMS 2 Factor Authentication - http://qntra.net/2016/07/us-standards-institute-prepares-to-ban-sms-2-factor-authentication/
BingoBoingo: Nah, the dude is a serious contender for most suck ever.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
trbbot: shinohai:The last 3 lines are bashed and pending review.
mircea_popescu: "Sorry for not letting you contact other members straight away, but purchasing a membership is what keeps the site running and helps us provide high-quality service.". 20 bux for a month.
mircea_popescu: in other news, freshly created disposable email shows spam from "computerwissen.de" at the same time as "profile activation" email from mai.showaround.com
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ~none of them are active by any sort of definition of activity that has anything to do with the current year. and on it goes.
mircea_popescu: noticee the part where it says "AGRADECIMIENTO Agradecemos al Prof. Antonio Grillo por el banner animado que encabeza el blog. Depto. de Informática", then check out that fucking banner animado.
mircea_popescu: they actually think this is a country. somehow.
mircea_popescu: the rest on dubious junk, wtf is jimdo.com
mircea_popescu: in other news, out of 496 highschools in the city of buenos aires, 80 have a website. the rest do not have a website. about two thirds offer "IT" in some shape nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, derpy listing on argentine govt site links to an institutional website on "blogpot.com". which is apparently owned, by some bible people.
BingoBoingo: Seriously though. Who would have thought the worst fate that could strike farmers would end up being an optimal amount of rain for their crop at the time the crop needed it.
mircea_popescu: but it's ok, for as long as one steals for "the state" it's all gravy.
thestringpuller: shinohai I think we may have popped the steem bubble.
thestringpuller: they are the leader in blockchain sakoority!!!!11
asciilifeform: To make sure that no one can access to the wallet.'
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, 'Dear customer
mircea_popescu: as aladeen well explained, "the drone will bounce off the target and come right back to us"
mircea_popescu: judging by the way dao CLASSIC worked, that'll end up a fine way to kill the us president.
shinohai: Your death by drone may well be a smart contract on the dao 2.0
BingoBoingo: Nah, funding the next war in Vietman more likely
mircea_popescu: what is thaqt, funding the war in the next iraq ?
mircea_popescu: and so they KNOW what ethereum will be used for in the future ?
shinohai: That new 'internet sensation' with the 70 inch ass on bp
shinohai: oh the asses i see everyday love that buttery goodness.
BingoBoingo: We are talking 3000 calories of extra popcorn consumed per day, per USian, for an entire year shinohai! And that's BEFORE the butter!
asciilifeform: 'Furthermore, my own personal opinion is that allowing ETC trading indirectly funds a criminal organization. With no way to know what these funds will be used for in the future, I find this behaviour careless and dangerous.' << gold
shinohai: perhaps increased popcorn sales will offset some of the cost.
BingoBoingo: There's actually corn growing in the ditches and gutters this year.
BingoBoingo: Just because ethereum is rolling in lulz we can't be saying corn futures are up when in fact they have fallen like a rock because "What the fuck are we going to do with all this corn?
deedbot: [Qntra] Ethereum-iverse Bleeding Money - http://qntra.net/2016/07/ethereum-iverse-bleeding-money/
BingoBoingo: Well gotta check the internet weather before posting. If posting to reddit and asking "am I hawt" FPH will brigade
mircea_popescu: now, numerically, he's pretty scandalous, i'm taller than him and more than 50lbs lighter. and i'm not "skinny", and i very much doubt he has "bigger bones" than me, partly because every time i broke something the doctors were "wtf, is this a horse bone ?"
mircea_popescu: well yeah, guy clearly wasn't expecting the reaction.
BingoBoingo: Anyways linked for the fatlogic about his "thick bones"
mircea_popescu: well, spectrum, spectrum, but not like autism, like anemia. there is a spectrum, but it doesn't start at the gate of normal.
BingoBoingo: Obesity is like Autism. THere's a spectrum
mircea_popescu: me either, and i own the ip, so it can't be that. aaanyway.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, on random bouncer which doesn't actually connect to any channels :
mircea_popescu: something seems to be in the way.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i can't read the number on her tits ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform next they merge with comcast, "the ministry of not spying on people"
mircea_popescu: i thought boobs need soutien not the other way around.
asciilifeform: 'US internet firm Yahoo will be sold to American telecoms firm Verizon Communications for nearly $5bn (£3.8bn) in cash. Yahoo will be combined with AOL, another faded internet star, which Verizon bought last year.'
thestringpuller: "there is nothing better than vagina to prop up a massive bubble" via https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1558366.0 (for those that care to view the tardtalk source)
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: oh and in other news : http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2016/07/my-entry.html << someone wrote a poem about corn. someone else read it. in a windy cornfield. DRAMATICALLY.
BingoBoingo: The gotta pretend the can do fashion because can't go nude looking like that
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are all the chicks running fashion blogs butt ugly.
BingoBoingo: But not to the point of wanting to use it on critter autopsies
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you were running a butcher thing you'd prolly still waqnt the steel mesh things ; but for what you do the thing you found prolly perfect fit.
mod6: Sounds fair. I just got the latex style ones for my hand-rolled first aid kits.
BingoBoingo: Anyways when it comes to cheap disposables the rule is latex for condoms and nitrile for gloves.
BingoBoingo: But don't loan gloves. They have a worse rate of return than BTCJam
mircea_popescu: it's the sort of shit people keep wanting to borrow from you.
mod6: alright, i'll have to get something like those. will report (with pics?) when I get the next couple of rabbits.
mircea_popescu: o look they have a whole apron and sleeve thing. the sleeve is great, other than side index / metacarpophalangeal joint injury, you mostly get the above wrist spot.

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