The five percent rule of the London market seems a good idea too, but you could argue that hard coded fire breaks could lead to a kind of moral jeopardy.

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Another notable feature is the unique, hard-coded ID number Intel assigns to each chip.

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The software is hard-coded to create that amount over the course of decades, on a prearranged, transparent schedule.

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Other associations, such as those hard-coded into a search engine (as opposed to a static link), may be difficult to find without spending a considerable amount of time on a page.

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This stuff is hard-coded.

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