Sublime

The power of large numbers is significant. If you earned $1,000 a day every day, it would take 1,000 days (or just under 3 years) to earn $1M. But it would take 1,000,000 days to earn $1B (over 2,700 years). 

When setting the luminous efficacy of candles as equal to 1, coal gas lights in the early industrial cities produced 5–10 times more; before the First World War electric light bulbs with tungsten filaments emitted up to 60 times more; today’s best fluorescent lights produce about 500 times as much; and sodium lamps (used for outdoor lighting) are u

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Something that obeys this distribution has a highly useful property: you can forecast the number of large-scale events from the number of small-scale ones, or vice versa. In the case of earthquakes, it turns out that for every increase of one point in magnitude, an earthquake becomes about ten times less frequent. So, for example, magnitude 6 earth

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