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entropicdrifter
519 days ago
7% is close? In what world is 7% close?
If you ran 7% of a mile in 5 minutes, would you claim you were close to running a 5 minute mile?
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nmca
519 days ago
It’s about 1oom off. In some contexts, one oom is pretty close.
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entropicdrifter
519 days ago
And as we all know, the economy scales exponentially with no real world repercussions /s
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hooli_gan
519 days ago
Looking at it logarithmically makes more sense to me. 500B seems a lot closer to 7T as 3K is to 500B. It's only off by an order of magnitude
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