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The tail is where important decisions are made.

X meter tsunami waves -> nuclear reactor barrier walls

X days without replenishing vital supplies -> warehouses and buffers.

I loath to think how many bad decisions are made because someone decided "three stdev" is good enough because they don't even know what a long tail is.



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