Something on this blog post is spiking my cpu to 100%. Any idea?
Edit: it seems to be that video embed
The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
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Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What if the person saying that means “Friday this week” sometimes and “Friday next week” other times? Well, I suppose they could, but then what if they meant Thursday? “Friday week” is surprisingly unambiguous. It always means “count forward from today until a Friday, then add a week”. Its partner is “Friday coming”, which is “count forward until a Friday”.
> > What if the person saying that means “Friday this week” sometimes and “Friday next week” other times? > Well, I suppose they could, but then what if they meant Thursday? > “Friday week” is surprisingly unambiguous. It always means “count forward from today until a Friday, then add a week”. Its partner is “Friday coming”, which is “count forward until a Friday”. That’s good that it’s unambiguous to you, as you hap…
I think this discussion of "Friday week" has people talking at cross purposes, and there may not be any real disagreement. It's an idiom, and if you're part of a (sub-)culture that has this idiom, its meaning is unambiguous. But if it's unfamiliar to you, you can't be expected to deduce its meaning from first principles.
Someone upthread mentioned "half ten", which is similar: if you're familiar with the idiom, you know it unambiguously means half past ten, but if you're not, you can't be sure that it doesn't mean 9.30 (or, for the literalists among us, 5.00).
Anyone telling you that you're wrong for not understanding it, or that you should start using it even though those around you are unfamiliar with it, is being silly; but I don't think anyone here is doing that.
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
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#444Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#445From a 2014 reddit post[0]: > This is actually not a million dollars in singles. It is over $1,000,000. The box was created with the wrong dimensions by the contractor, but they still decided to fill it, display it, and claim it is $1,000,000. > > Source: Tour Guide at the Chicago Fed [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2f9sp7/one_million_do...
This thread is very informative on your chances of carrying off a heist stealing this cube. Conclusion: Low, unless you're willing to take only a fraction of the face value. Thinking through it though - you might be able to get away with spending the cash overseas, where it will take some time indeed for the money to be under scrutiny by banks to see if the serial numbers are out of circulation. There's then problem…
I wonder how much time it would take to feed all of those singles into laundromat and barcade quarter machines. ;D
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#446If the cube contains 1.5x more bills than it should (50% more volume), then the correct scaling of the cube should have been (2/3)^(1/3) = 87%
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What if the person saying that means “Friday this week” sometimes and “Friday next week” other times? Well, I suppose they could, but then what if they meant Thursday? “Friday week” is surprisingly unambiguous. It always means “count forward from today until a Friday, then add a week”. Its partner is “Friday coming”, which is “count forward until a Friday”.
> “Friday week” is surprisingly unambiguous. It always means “count forward from today until a Friday, then add a week”. Well, no, the typical case would be that it means nothing at all and the other person thinks you're having a stroke. Zero potential meanings isn't actually better than two potential meanings. You know what's really unambiguous? "Friday the 8th".
That's just a spicy way of saying "I am unfamiliar with this idiom". Nobody is saying you should unilaterally start using it in the US, or in any other context where nobody would understand you. They're saying that, for those who do have this idiom, it is unambiguous.
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#448It does contain $1,000,000, just not exactly that much.
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#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitions are surprisingly varied. I see these words as being something to be cautious about. For me: couple(formal) = 2 couple(informal) = 2-3 few = 3-5 half-dozen = 6 [gap] ten-or-so = 9-11 dozen(formal) = 12 dozen-ish(informal) = 11-14 And don't get me started on "this Friday" vs "next Friday"...
don't forget: several = 5-10 handful = 10-20 Personally, after having worked in a hardware store, I always confirm. "grab me a couple of those please" - "is two enough, or do you need a few extra?" I'm one of those people for whom a couple is 3-5, but never 2. I would just say "two".
> a couple is 3-5, but never 2
For me it depends on the formality. For example, a married couple is never more than two people.
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “Friday week” is surprisingly unambiguous. It always means “count forward from today until a Friday, then add a week”. Well, no, the typical case would be that it means nothing at all and the other person thinks you're having a stroke. Zero potential meanings isn't actually better than two potential meanings. You know what's really unambiguous? "Friday the 8th".
That's just a spicy way of saying "I am unfamiliar with this idiom". Nobody is saying you should unilaterally start using it in the US, or in any other context where nobody would understand you. They're saying that, for those who do have this idiom, it is unambiguous.
There's a little bit more to it than that. I am unfamiliar with the idiom, and the idiom does not appear to be grammatical English, suggesting that something has gone wrong rather than that the speaker is using a foreign vocabulary item. Most idioms don't look like word salad, but this one does.
"Friday week" would ordinarily mean a week characterized in some way by Friday, but of course there can be no such week. There could be a "Good Friday week".