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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by ljw1001 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @09:44PM (#14385322)
I refer you to the 12,000-year human population growth chart on Our World In Data, in a post by Max Roser.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth/

Growth is clearly exponential. Your theories don't fit the data.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by candiodari on Sunday May 21, 2017 @04:03AM (#14386262)
I'm looking at that graph. I see a spike in the growth rate, after the spike it goes to zero. I'm not an expert (I have a masters in statistics actually) but that doesn't look very exponential to me.

Can you explain what I'm missing ?

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