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Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by listenallyall »

whatgoodisaroad wrote: post #2

Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualization in any case.

I think for large monetary units, newspapers and reporters should always use millions. Ask a guy off the street, what's larger, $500 million or $2 billion? I bet most get it wrong. That infrastructure bill that just passed? 1.2 million millions. How rich is Jeff Bezos? 200 thousand millions. The total US national debt? 29 million millions. Say it that way and it actually sounds like a large number.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by throwaway984393 »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #8
whatgoodisaroad wrote: post #2

Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualization in any case.

My lab scale shows me grams to the thousandth (the accuracy is only to the hundredths). Would you have it show me 7000mg instead? What about 17000mg? I think it’s much better to pick a unit that makes the most sense for the bulk of your readings and abuse it instead of changing units on me. Imagine if it went from 999mg to 1g, now imagine it trying to settle between them. Or you are weighing a dozen items that are al…

I think you just gave a compelling case for why there should be multiple units. It's much simpler to just write a small number and a whatever unit identifier, than have to read large or unwieldy numbers.

I just cooked a recipe where it asked me for 100 grams of a paste, 90 grams of a liquid, 70 grams of a powder, 30 grams of a spice, 15 grams of another liquid. Do people in other countries have measuring spoons in gram size? And do you always tell people whether you meant by volume or weight? Tablespoons, teaspoons, cups and ounces just seems easier than having to measure a fraction of some large number.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by sverhagen »

waschl wrote: post #42
salmiak wrote: post #40

This is a very clear illustration of the inequalities between the northern and southern hemisphere’s.

I guess it’s rather a clear illustration of shopify‘s international reach

...or of how much or little "Black Friday" is a global thing. (It sure is being marketed in Europe now, even if my country-fellows in the Netherlands don't celebrate (American) Thanksgiving.)

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

throwaway984393 wrote: post #43
ComputerGuru wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My lab scale shows me grams to the thousandth (the accuracy is only to the hundredths). Would you have it show me 7000mg instead? What about 17000mg? I think it’s much better to pick a unit that makes the most sense for the bulk of your readings and abuse it instead of changing units on me. Imagine if it went from 999mg to 1g, now imagine it trying to settle between them. Or you are weighing a dozen items that are al…

I think you just gave a compelling case for why there should be multiple units. It's much simpler to just write a small number and a whatever unit identifier, than have to read large or unwieldy numbers. I just cooked a recipe where it asked me for 100 grams of a paste, 90 grams of a liquid, 70 grams of a powder, 30 grams of a spice, 15 grams of another liquid. Do people in other countries have measuring spoons in gr…

> Do people in other countries have measuring spoons in gram size? And do you always tell people whether you meant by volume or weight?

Grams are a mass measure. A recipe calling for X grams of Y requires a scale to be accurately followed. Volumetric measurements, e.g. teaspoons and ounces, are easier to follow, but they're less accurate. (Canonical example is salt. Ask for a mass measurement of salt, and you'll always get the same amount of it. Ask for a volumetric quantity, and your mileage [hehe] will vary based on what type of salt is used.)

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by bathtub365 »

salmiak wrote: post #40

This is a very clear illustration of the inequalities between the northern and southern hemisphere’s.

One of the biggest inequalities being that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are American inventions aligned with a holiday that doesn’t exist in other countries.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by [deleted] »

MattGaiser wrote: post #14
whatgoodisaroad wrote: post #2

Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualization in any case.

A lot of people really struggle with both large numbers and changes in units. Our current system is basically the social consensus of what is easiest.

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Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by codetrotter »

sverhagen wrote: post #44
waschl wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess it’s rather a clear illustration of shopify‘s international reach

...or of how much or little "Black Friday" is a global thing. (It sure is being marketed in Europe now, even if my country-fellows in the Netherlands don't celebrate (American) Thanksgiving.)

Here in Norway the stores have been running Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for years at least. And recently more and more of them have Black Week, which is like Black Friday but it lasts the whole week.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by codetrotter »

cobertos wrote: post #5
StriverGuy wrote: post #3

Slightly off topic but I am always surprised Shopify hasn't every created something akin to the amazon homepage that allows you to browse and find items at shopify stores more seamlessly.

I've wanted this exact same thing. I've used `site:myshopify.com item` to search via Shopify URL pattern in Google

Unfortunately that will exclude any Shopify powered store that has a custom domain.

Didn’t Google use to have an “inhtml:” operator or something that let you search for matches in the html of pages? Shopify powered websites have commonalities in their html that can give away very quickly the fact to a crawler that it is powered by Shopify, just by looking at the html of the main landing page of the shop.

Also, the DNS entry for a Shopify hosted site, even if using a custom domain, will be either a CNAME pointing to shops.myshopify.com, or an A record pointing to an IP address owned by Shopify, like 23.227.38.65. https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/23.227.38.65

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