28 July 2013 - 10,000,000 ants

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Some Are Still Stronger Than Humanity

If you see 10 ants angling for your lunch, smoosh them. If you see 1000 ants that have already found your lunch, wipe out their trail. If you see 100,000, pour boiling water on their nest. If you see 10,000,000, give up, you have already lost. We have our strategies and ants have theirs, or in other words, the balance of nature is a Nash equilibrium. And nobody promised that it’s an equal game.

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