Ministers, business leaders and economists have been forced to own up to error by the sheer scale of the economic crash and the undeniable inexcusability of certain expense claims.

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As it makes the tricky transition from demonstration-scale production to commercial-scale manufacturing, it has little room for execution error.

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The technique should hold up in the real world despite ditching typical photolithography, the company says: the nanoimprinting remains useful in the error-prone world of storage, and it should scale as the patterns get smaller.

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They happen often on the multi-million dollar scale, rather than the billion dollar scale of the flash crash, but they are the same class of event: The error trade.

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