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  • ...hauvinism is the opposite of that. A perspective chauvinist says,“you know what? It ''is'' you.” ...simply a reflection that, however far we have come, we are not there yet. We are but hobbits, on the way to Mt. Doom.
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  • {{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We must innovate! We have earmarked technology budget to innovate! <br> {{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Great! How about some decent document comparison software?<br>
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  • ...ignored in construing this Agreement”}}What is it that the [[legal eagle]] so distrusts about headings? ...lified clerks, or something — I am totally making this up — but that isn’t how things work now.</ref> At best, this provides cover to the miscreant who la
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  • ...ons|brilliant theory]] and succinctly describes what pragmatic people find so excruciating about academic [[philosophy]]. ...n’t so much silly as ''rueful'', is: “why did I just do that do myself and how will I get those hours of my life back?” It brims full of silly answers,
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  • ...assion]]ate is to ''recognise'' suffering, but step back from it and ask “how can I help?” We are not sure that “compassion” is quite as good an organising principle
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  • ...l evidence at all.<ref>See also James Suzman’s {{br|Work: A History of How we Spend Our Time}}</ref> money is more likely to have always represented inde ...cally very risky. All of the colossal complication that we know, love, and we rent-seeking agents secrete ourselves into the loving satin folds of, arise
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  • ...legislation]] requires, on pain of — well it isn’t really clear on pain of what, exactly — legal departments to go around inserting approved contractual ...ive of the terms of a contract. BRRD is clear: bail-in applies whether you know about it or not, and whether the language is present or not.
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  • ...''Socialist Worker'' — ''selling'' a socialist screed is a delicious irony isn’t it —then your product is a long way down the Maslow hierarchy of needs, a ...umer choices then no matter how distasteful you might find the business of what you do, pitching it as way of virtue signalling is dumb. Because ''Republic
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  • ===[[Bitcoin]] isn’t a [[currency]]=== [[Cash]], as you’ll know if you’ve had the pleasure of the [[JC]]’s [[Cash|frequent tedious pero
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  • ...didn’t notice? Whose trick? ''What'' trick? Introduce her beauty before we know who she is. ...hands. That’s how things were now. The sidewalk wasn’t quite wide enough, so Quentin trailed after them, like a sulky child. He would rather have been a
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  • {{quote|“Who says port isn’t sexy?”<ref>http://www.ponsonbynews.co.nz/article-detail/show/2103/</ref>} Now the JC doesn’t know — ''waaaay'' to sexy for that — but he supposes that, when it comes to
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  • ...|Tedium|/ˈtiːdɪəm/|n|}}<br>1. The state of being [[tedious]]; a [[noun]] ''so'' dull that dictionaries regularly define it by reference to its [[adjectiv ...included in hundreds of dictionaries, although perhaps none have rendered so poetic and succinct a definition as Nathaniel Bailey’s entry in his 1756
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  • {{author|Rory Sutherland}}’s ten rules, and how these translate into the [[JC]]’s messed up, post-structuralist view. ...ycho-physics'''” — the difference between perception and reality. How what we see, hear, taste and feel differs from ‘objective’ reality.
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  • ...at least as a metaphor, “[[Darwin’s Dangerous Idea]]” explains a lot about how complex decentralised systems of any kind work. ...d duties independent of its directors, offices, servants and shareholders. We take it for granted that the firm, and the natural people engaged on its be
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  • ...nformation is in the public domain, it is available for everyone to see or know about”}} ...ion that ''could be'' protected by [[intellectual property]] rights, but ''isn’t'', whether because those rights have expired, been forfeited, waived, or fo
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  • Aren’t so ''smart''.. ...“becoming healthy, funny and physically appealing” — which is most likely what you really want. And, as with all Greek tragedies one can attain the proxy
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  • ...come to mean “cutting one’s fishing line” — giving up the fish altogether. So, “crap, or get off the pot”.}}}}“[[Use it or lose it]]”, in the ver ...agree when you were a two-person start-up above a shoe-shop in Camden. I ''know'', right?
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  • ...as it is informed so deeply by such a utopian (or dystopian, depending on how you look at it) view. ...just as for those currently redundant young masters of the universe then, we’re on the cusp of a brave new world.
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  • {{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” :—Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, qui
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  • ...cing transactions regulation]], by composing an unctuous reply for you. “''So'' inspiring!” <br> 4. Oh help me we lawyers are all doomed because of ChatGPT-3
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