...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com Oh well, back to the drawing board.
like the 7 minute abs got usurped by the 6 minute abs?
10^6 Giraffes
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#12...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com Oh well, back to the drawing board.
like the 7 minute abs got usurped by the 6 minute abs?
My business model consists of convincing users that their giraffes are private and then, once I've got half a million, shamelessly changing my privacy policy to help advertisers.
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#13...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com Oh well, back to the drawing board.
There's a cartoon somewhere of the 59 minute photo lab
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#15I'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army "My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin." Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.
Exercise for the interested reader - why could he not have said:
> ... I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC.
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#16I can't wait for RiderOfGiraffes to get wind of this project ... http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes
Nothing to do with me, but I watch with interest. Sadly I can't send a photo of my giraffes because she's store-bought.
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#17I'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army "My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin." Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.
Exercise for the interested reader - why could he not have said: > ... I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. ??
What, you mean a Chinese emperor did not know the exact future date of the birth of Christ?
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#18I'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army "My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin." Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.
Exercise for the interested reader - why could he not have said: > ... I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. ??
Because he wasn't fluent in English?
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#19http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?
There is this one submitter of Giraffes[1], responsible for two percent of all German giraffes, or this one[2], responsible for nearly five percent. I didn’t even have to look all that hard to find them. [1] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Sanne [2] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Ediktonia
[1] "I found 4 085 giraffes created by people named Sanne!"
[2] "I found 9 988 giraffes created by people named Ediktonia!"
The actual statistic is that 2% of all Germans who submitted giraffes were named Sanne and 5% were named Ediktonia. It doesn't say they were all the same person.
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#20I'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army "My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin." Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.
Exercise for the interested reader - why could he not have said: > ... I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. ??
Because 209 BC will in the past by the time he collects the soldiers... that is, the year after 209 BC is 208 BC.