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How Fake Money Saved Brazil
Good story, reminds me of a favorite quotation:
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Bartlett
Natsu
on Oct 5, 2010
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From what I've seen, I think that we don't understand S-curves, either. No matter which side of it we're on.
They can look exponential... until they hit the limit.
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