The effect of car care best practices, such as changing your oil or checking a tire's air pressure, is not implicit unless we have measurements to quantify what we gained or lost.

采取汽车保养最佳实践所产生的效应，例如更换机油或检查轮胎的气压，并不能用于准确地评价质量，除非我们确实找到了度量质量好坏的手段。

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On the other hand, adding hashcash minting and checking to your own MUA — unlike some other anti-spam measures — has no negative effect on anyone else.

另一方面，向您自己的mua添加hashcash生成和校验对其他所有人没有任何负面影响(不像其他一些反垃圾邮件方法)。

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This approach will work, but it has an unfortunate side effect: the checking account balance is lower than when the test started, making other testing more difficult.

该方法将起作用，遗憾的是，它有一个副作用：支票帐户余额比测试开始时少，这使得其它测试变得更困难。

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The Federal Reserve's fundamental blunder in no way excuses the reckless, eye-popping practices of those mortgage bankers who lent money to people without even checking that their alleged incomes were real or who, in effect, gave the wink and nod to dicey borrowers, signaling that when their teaser interest rates were up, they could get new mortgages at new teaser rates.

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Or to put it another way, it's not completely bonkers that the German government does not wish to - in effect - finance the lifestyles of Italians and Spanish people, without checking whether German voters think that's tickety-boo.

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