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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by doomjunky on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:48AM (#20234076)
The 80/20 rule is basically the power law which is one of my favorite laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by notSupplied on Thursday June 20, 2019 @04:10PM (#20236838)
It is also one of the most abused rules, often used to justify extremely sloppy "big picture thinking".
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by yosito on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:25PM (#20246028)
Yeah, but 80% of the time, the sloppy thinking is right.
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