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This is a childrearing technique, too: say “please do X”, where X precludes Y, rather than saying “please don’t do Y!”, which just increases the salience, and therefore likelihood,…

Attributed to economist Gordon Tullock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike

> Circa 2005, I heard a podcast with 90-something Ronald Coase. He has pissed. Everyone had been teaching his theorem backwards for decades, backed with the "chalkboard economics" …

> I don't know how bats works with the @test annotation? That doesn't look like valid shell syntax. Bats runs the test files through a preprocessor[1] that, among other things, con…