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		tclancy on May 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP >banks are too spendthrift Only being a pedant because this came up in /r/soccer today about an hour beforehand. That means the opposite of what you want it to mean.

kogepathic on May 14, 2017 [–]

> That means the opposite of what you want it to mean.

Thanks! I actually didn't know this. Do you have a suggestion of a better term for the behaviour I'm trying to describe? I was trying to be more elegant than "cheap"

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