The more pressing question: Why would writing a column on being cheap make a person less so? Wouldn't it have the opposite effect?

更急迫的问题是，为什么写“锱铢必较”专栏的人，反倒变得不那么节俭了呢？岂非适得其反？

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They purposefully make you feel like less of a person so you'll buy their stuff and they'll make money.

他们故意让你觉得自己不那么像一个人，这样你就会买他们的东西，他们就会赚钱。

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It can almost seem like another version of cliques: the pressure to go out with the "right" person in the "right" group can make dating a lot less fun than it should be - and not so much about love!

与“对”的人一起出现在“对”的圈子里，这种压力让约会少了许多应有的乐趣——也不再与爱有关！

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So,even in a persons darkest hour, he or she can feel less alone.

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While WiFi-based systems only detect location within two metres or so, Navisens claims to pinpoint a person's whereabouts within less than one metre.

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Not so easy to see that a person might value a job at less than the minimum wage or that sorrow is borne differently by each person.

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Some will test umpires, so you don't want to put a fairly new person up there with less experience.

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