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In French project management parlance, we use k€ all the time.
I guess the french equivalent of kilobucks would be briques (bricks)
(The only person I know that still used «briques» in these decades were my grand parents born in the 1920th)
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I guess the french equivalent of kilobucks would be briques (bricks)
If you were born before WWII, yes. (The only person I know that still used «briques» in these decades were my grand parents born in the 1920th)
An interesting substory that is simultaneously reminiscent of the Fogbank story and how Hayek's "curious task" is much more broadly applicable: There is a good cautionary tale here from the Space Shuttle era. That vehicle had heat resistant tiles that had to be attached to the aluminum belly of the orbiter. A special cloth had been certified for wiping the aluminum clean before applying the primer that securely bonde…
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
Intended as a warning against command economies and centralized structures more generally, because the information-processing requirements are much larger than one might expect. But of course there are few things more central-planning than a space programme.
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Indeed. "Grease peaks" we called them, they were always there in basically all NMR or MS spectra I took as an organic chemist. Like PFAS or microplastics, you just can't get rid of them.
I bet some of these modern environmental contaminants is causing the increasing age cohort cancer rates.
If there was any "we don't even know if this is an emergency" surprise interaction along these lines, a 3-day emergency resupply mission (or evacuation) is much, much easier than a 6-9 month trip when the planets align.