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andrewmcwatters 21 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94...

No one spends percentages. You spend dollars. Differences in annual compounding are tremendous.

I would even argue logarithmic scales on charts are rarely useful. They’re inappropriately used in financial charts all the time.

floundy 21 days ago [–]

This comment is a microcosm of how HN is essentially indistinguishable from Reddit nowadays in the quality of discussion.

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