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"... But no one knows yet how much. Possibly only a little. Possibly a lot, if it becomes a vicious circle. ..."

The email is counter-intuitive because being truthful and signalling a possible crunch speeds up the observation. It also gets you trampled as the herd looks at the lead changing directions ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067278 but it also forces teams to 'adapt' quickly.



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