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Vernon Smith is a Nobel Laureate, so is kind of a big deal, and Alex Tabarrok put the statement up on Marginal Revolution. But yes, disappointing Tyler didn't sign.

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Thank you boosting this Statement of Commitment.

I have known one of the beyond brilliant signatories well since childhood and am unsurprised to see his name on it.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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Instead of tweeting the link and posting the link on relevant forums to the original blog piece, you copy-and-pasted the original blog piece into your own blog, and tweeted and posted links to your copy.

In other words, you are free-riding on the efforts of other creators to try to draw traffic to your own website without having added anything of value yourself, to ultimately benefit monetarily yourself from the efforts of the original creators.

Only someone desperate and entirely lacking in originality would stoop to such bottom-feeding sIeaziness. I hope all of your readers who have a sufficiently high enough lQ to understand that you're doing cancel their subscription.

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