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Of course, were it a digital signal, all the information could still be recovered, even if the wave was attenuated to, say, 0.2. ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Dec 18th, 2008 at 09:51:59 AM EST
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is that the same with any mobile phone company? ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:00:57 AM EST
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Bad metaphor. You can design an analogue system which can handle square waves accurately. You only get distortion and ringing in certain circumstances.

In a digital system you wouldn't get any signal at all at an attenuation of 0.2 because that would be too small to switch bits.

It's more likely that there's a chaotic instability happening which may - or may not - lead to a dramatic state change.

But unlike chaotic processes in nature, economies don't just happen. They're engineered to work in a certain way for the benefit of certain people.

Nothing in economics is inevitable or out of human hands. The problem is making sure it's the right human hands doing the engineering.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:06:08 AM EST
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The problem is making sure it's the right human hands doing the engineering.

Why do I get the feeling it's the Phil Graham/Grover Norquist types who will be the "human hands"?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:11:41 AM EST
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