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		snickerbockers 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Ne... i wish more people understood that 'exponential' is a rate of change and no value can be said to be 'exponentially' larger or smaller compared to any another value.

kube-system 6 months ago [–]

I wish more people understood that metaphorical colloquialisms are not intended to be taken literally.

snickerbockers 6 months ago | [–]

so is it exponential growth or decay he's talking about?

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