So instead we rely on extremely crude estimates subject to all sorts of biases, the accuracy of which cannot possibly be better than a 10-percent margin.

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All together, Qualcomm provided us a circus of absurdity the likes of which cannot be created in fiction.

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First, all the important spending decisions remain under the control of future Congresses, which cannot be bound by what this one did.

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Hence, in turn, our own notion that a white elephant is a valuable possession which cannot be disposed of, even though the expense of maintaining it is out of all proportion to its usefulness or worth.

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