A Short Eulogy For The Rebate Rule

The rebate rule is dead, but we should pay tribute to the failed endeavor.

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“It is right and seemly that now, when we are lamenting the dead, a tribute should be paid to their memory,” Pericles opened his famous funeral oration. 

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