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Re:Bombardier to Cut 7,500 More Jobs Through 2018, Most in Rail by gaur on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:17PM (#12761656)
Whatever that means.
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Re:Bombardier to Cut 7,500 More Jobs Through 2018, Most in Rail by asimuvPR on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:20PM (#12763708)
It means that when you fire one person it affects many more. When you fire 7,500 there are thousands more affected.
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Re:Bombardier to Cut 7,500 More Jobs Through 2018, Most in Rail by gaur on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:50PM (#12774536)
Still uselessly vague. Who is affected? How are they affected? How did you determine the effect is exponential as opposed to, say, logarithmic or linear?
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