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  2. Planning fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The segmentation effect is defined as the time allocated for a task being significantly smaller than the sum of the time allocated to individual smaller sub-tasks of that task. In a study performed by Forsyth in 2008, this effect was tested to determine if it could be used to reduce the planning fallacy.

  3. Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia

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    Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]

  4. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    There are some workarounds for users, for instance, that will more than double the life of the printer that has stopped with a message to replace the imaging drum. [38] In 2021, Canon disabled the scanning function of its Canon Pixma MG6320 all-in-one printers whenever an ink cartridge was out of ink. A class action lawsuit was filed. [39]

  5. Powell says taking 'longer than expected' for inflation to ...

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    Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that it will likely take longer to cut rates, saying it will take 'longer than expected' to achieve the confidence needed to get inflation down to the central bank ...

  6. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

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    "The aggregate model's emphasis is upon the accumulation and balance of forces rather than the ordering of effects over time." [1] The model is general and can provide an ideal view as to how the effects whether positive or negative are defined by micro and macro forces. This model goes by situation rather than what researchers have defined as ...

  7. Putin says Ukraine fight is taking longer than expected - AOL

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his “special military operation” in Ukraine is taking longer than expected but said it has succeeded in seizing new territory and ...

  8. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    As a noun, desert is a barren or uninhabited place; an older meaning of the word is "what one deserves", as in the idiom just deserts. A dessert is the last course of a meal. disassemble and dissemble. To disassemble means "to dismantle" (e.g., to take a machine code program apart to see how it works); to dissemble means "to tell lies ...

  9. The word ‘and’ could land criminal defendants with longer ...

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    Under the “safety valve” provision of the First Step Act, criminal defendants could be eligible for shorter sentencing (less than the mandatory 15-year minimum) so long as they did not have ...