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Science has inexplicably failed to come up with a precise definition of "hipster", but from my limited understanding a hipster is a person who deliberately uses unpopular, obsolete, or obscure styles and preferences in an attempt to be "cooler" than the mainstream. But why would being deliberately uncool be cooler than being cool?

As previously discussed, in certain situations refusing to signal can be a sign of high status. Thorstein Veblen invented the term "conspicuous consumption" to refer to the showy spending habits of the nouveau riche, who unlike the established money of his day took great pains to signal their wealth by buying fast cars, expensive clothes, and shiny jewelery. Why was such flashiness common among new money but not old? Because the old money was so secure in their position that it never even occurred to them that they might be confused with poor people, whereas new money, with their lack of aristocratic breeding, worried they might be mistaken for poor people if they didn't make it bl

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enum COVID {}

extension COVID {
    struct Conditions {
        let caseCount: Int
        let hospitalizationCount: Int
        let caseIncrease: Float
    }

    public struct Response {

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This is not any kind of formal academic gloss on one of the most contested and considered terms in contemporary political history, neoliberal. I’m not qualified to write one of those. This is an attempt to convey what a lot of people mean when they use the term “neoliberal” in the context of 21st century progressive politics and what it meant in the recent past. This is a scribbling about my perception of how a contested term rose and fell and changed over time. I will leave the meaning of neoliberalism to others. But “neoliberalism” meant something in left-of-center political debates ten or fifteen years ago, and it was used like a comma, and now it means something different or less and I think about it a lot.

Traditionally neoliberalism had much more to do with conservatism than liberalism. It was Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who brought us a neoliberal revolution in the 1970s and 80s, after all. But you can read history books about that. In 2021 “neoliberal” as a pejorative tends to mean those who

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import Darwin

private typealias Point = (x: CGFloat, y: CGFloat)
private typealias Points = (Point, Point?)

extension UIBezierPath {
    public convenience init(rect: CGRect, cornerRadius radius: CGFloat, roundedCorners: UIRectCorner = .AllCorners) {
        self.init()
        let path = Path(rect: rect, radius: radius, roundedCorners: roundedCorners)
        drawPath(path)

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class MonolithViewController: UIViewController {
    enum InnerSegueType {
        case WebView
        case Inspector
        
        init?(segue: UIStoryboardSegue) {
            if segue.identifier == "WebView" {
                self = .WebView
            } else if segue.identifier == "Inspector" {
                self = .Inspector

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extension Dictionary {
    public func map<T: Hashable, U>(@noescape transform: (Key, Value) -> (T, U)) -> [T: U] {
        var result: [T: U] = [:]
        for (key, value) in self {
            let (transformedKey, transformedValue) = transform(key, value)
            result[transformedKey] = transformedValue
        }
        return result
    }
    

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func bigrams(text: String) -> [(String, String)] {
    let words = split(text) { $0 == " " }
    return Array(Zip2(words, words[1..<words.count]))
}

  1> println(bigrams("one two three four five"))
[(one, two), (two, three), (three, four), (four, five)]

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struct User {
	let id: Int
	let name: String
	let email: String?
}

extension User: JSONDecodable {
	static func create(id: Int, name: String, email: String?) -> User {
		return User(id: id, name: name, email: email)
	}

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NSTimeInterval duration = 3.0;
SEL selector = @selector(_setContentOffsetAnimationDuration:);
NSInvocation *invocation = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature:[scrollView methodSignatureForSelector:selector]];

[invocation setSelector:selector];
[invocation setTarget:scrollView];
[invocation setArgument:&duration atIndex:2];
[invocation invoke];

[scrollView setContentOffset:contentOffset animated:YES]

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@implementation NSString (JSRemoveIrrelevantTags)

- (NSString *)js_stringByRemovingIrrelevantTags
{
    NSMutableString *filteredString = [NSMutableString string];

    NSSet *filteredLinguisticTags = [NSSet setWithArray:@[NSLinguisticTagDeterminer, NSLinguisticTagPreposition]];

    [self enumerateLinguisticTagsInRange:NSMakeRange(0, self.length)
                                  scheme:NSLinguisticTagSchemeLexicalClass