I know it seems stupid now and believe me I kick myself about it everyday but you should have seen the apartment afterwards — the tape was not a high priority.

我知道现在看起来很蠢，相信我，每一天我都后悔不迭，但是你本应该看看后来我的公寓那磁带并不要紧。

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Bureaucracies, red tape, stupid policies, and such can cause all kinds of challenges and it is very difficult to create smart simple solutions to these problems.

官僚机构的繁文缛节，愚蠢的政策，这种可能导致各种挑战，这是非常难以形成这些问题的智能简单的解决方案。

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