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The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by ryx »

leipie wrote: post #439
myself248 wrote: post #426

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It's like saying "half ten" instead of "ten thirty". There's a missing word, it's "half past ten", it's "friday next week".

In Dutch the literal translation is "half tien" which means 9:30 in Dutch. This can be quite confusing ;)

In Germany it‘s even more confusing. In the West people say „Viertel nach Neun“ and “Viertel vor Zehn” which is pretty much „quarter past nine“ and “quarter to ten”, while in Eastern Germany people say “Viertel Zehn” and “Dreiviertel Zehn” which rather means “quarter of ten” and “three quarters of ten”. Even though they are meaning exactly the same times.

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by aspenmayer »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #450
retsibsi wrote: post #447

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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. Th…

> "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".

I think there was that one or maybe two times the Catholic Church changed the day or date? I don’t know much about it but that may have resulted in a week without a Friday, which would make the next one pretty good, when it happened.

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by acatnamedjoe »

eru wrote: post #367
ciupicri wrote: post #341

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I guess that's why we have €1 and €2 coins (1 EUR ≈ 1.18 USD).

Well that, and Germans need the 1 Euro coin to unlock their shopping trolley. (Or at least they used to; when I visited back recently many supermarkets had free trolleys! Can you imagine my shock?)

Unlocking trolleys with a coin is normal in Britain too. I'd never considered that this might be unusual.

Is this not a thing in other countries? How do they get people to return their trolleys to the bays?

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

arduanika wrote: post #420
takinola wrote: post #283

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I literally just said "Nothing from my end" on a zoom call. Still waiting on my million dollars though so not sure how reliable this method is.

The point is that if you do the boring job and save for long enough, and you'll reap the benefits of compound disinterest.

Saving? In this economy?

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Post by dwedge »

dmje wrote: post #455
arduanika wrote: post #420

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The point is that if you do the boring job and save for long enough, and you'll reap the benefits of compound disinterest.

I love how literally you took that

I think they just wanted to say compound disinterest

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

andrelaszlo wrote: post #347
takinola wrote: post #283

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I literally just said "Nothing from my end" on a zoom call. Still waiting on my million dollars though so not sure how reliable this method is.

Once you realize that this task is massively parallelizable, you're all set!

Point me to these "nothing on my end" jobs and I will write software and make recordings that trigger the phrase at the right moment, lol

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Post by sebastiennight »

jjcob wrote: post #459
MegaDeKay wrote: post #413

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How about when a recipe tells you to let something soak / marinate / rise / whatever "overnight". When really should I start? When really does it end? Is 8am one day to 4pm the next day (32h) the same as 9pm one day to 7am the next day (10h)?

I think for a lot of things it doesn't matter, so either 10h or 32h are okay (eg. soaking beans, marinating meat). If it says overnight I assume the time doesn't really matter that much.

Unless you're marinating your meat with pineapple, in which case it can end badly...

The day I learned that the acidic feel of pineapples comes from it actually digesting you instead of the opposite is the day I stopped using them.

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Post by starsep »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #349
achierius wrote: post #329

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That sounds more like "a couple". Personally I think "a few" would be anywhere from 3-9, which is more reasonable, if still handily above the median national income (like 250k a year if you save and invest well).

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"...

https://xkcd.com/1070/

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

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