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Just because relativity showed Newtonian physics to be wrong about how the universe worked doesn't mean we can't use the latter as a decent approximation under appropriate constraints. Similarly, we don't really need to calculate the probability of the Sun teleporting over Wall Street when valuing Facebook's IPO.


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