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carsongross on May 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Not All Earnings Are Equal; Microsoft Has the ...

Your discomfiture is well placed:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

The world is mostly logistic curves, but the ponzi needs us to all believe in exponential curves.

swombat on May 9, 2011 | [–]

Just a clarification for those (like me) who didn't get it:

A logistic curve is basically an S-shaped curve, also known as a sigmoid.

encoderer on May 9, 2011 | [–]

TY for the link. Another example of a great lecturer being able to make up for a dry subject matter.

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