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								The mice in the French experiment were given a human-equivalent dose of about an ounce a day, or several hundred capsules. 
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								Never had much trouble with it on a couple of customer-site deployments on my last job, either, except for the usual bitching attending any anti-spam solution not of human-equivalent intelligence. 
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								Only the name remains as a vague shorthand for merely human-equivalent intelligences to use when describing interactions they don't understand. 
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								The City's mission statement is to provide a mediatory environment for human-equivalent intelligences and to preserve same in the face of external aggression. 
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								Its current executive agency is a weakly godlike intelligence that chooses to associate with human-equivalent intelligences: this agency is colloquially known as "Hello Kitty," "Beautiful Cat," or "Aineko," and may manifest itself in a variety of physical avatars if corporeal interaction is desired. 
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								All the remaining human-equivalent intelligences with half a clue to rub together are trying to emigrate before the Vile Offspring decide to recycle Earth to fill in a gap in the concentric shells of nanocomputers they're running on. 
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								My late uncle, Ethan Frost, who headed Rampart in the beginning, was one of the first galactic entrepreneurs to give Insap workers human-equivalent wages and decent working conditions. Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001 
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								I told them Rampart would pay human-equivalent wages to those who worked as hard as human beings, and proportional salaries to the less efficient. Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998 
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								It worked, and far more efficiently than something designed by human-equivalent minds, but repair and debugging -- of the cyber component -- was out of the question. A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992 
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								He guessed the Landgrave to be, in human-equivalent terms, younger than himself. Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979 
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