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FiftyTwo comments on Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 05 January 2015 04:36:45PM 18 points [-]

I've managed to partly transmute my "I want to buy that now" impulse into sending a sample to my kindle. Then if I never get past the first few pages I've not actually spent any money, if I reach the end of the sample and still want to continue I know I'm likely to keep going .