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

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Post by Ferret7446 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

jameshart wrote: post #364

bandofthehawk wrote: post #277

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Pennies and nickels cost more to make than they are worth.

People are quick to state this as if it's a slam dunk case for 'we shouldn't make them any more', but I don't understand the thinking there. An individual coin can be used many many times to facilitate many many transactions before it eventually falls out of circulation through loss or damage. The amount you should spend on making coins of a given denomination has nothing to do with what the total face value of those…

> It's a different story if the material value of the metal in the coin exceeds its face value - at that point it makes sense to go to a bank, change money into pennies, then scrap them and sell the copper. That would be bad.

Well, that is highly illegal and not very profitable vs the amount of risk. You'd be better off doing almost any other crime.

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

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Post by _el1s7 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 9:47 AM UTC

And you're charging $3 to export some dots on top of an image from a basic app that probably takes like 1 hour to make... Ugh, so lame.

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

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Post by antod » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:05 AM UTC

kiwijamo wrote: post #457

antod wrote: post #419

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Reasonably commonly used in Commonwealth countries. Next Friday is sometimes too ambiguous, you can never be sure you share the same definition with the other person. Is it the same as This Friday (the very next occurring Friday), or Friday Week (ie next week's Friday).

Never seen or heard this in New Zealand from native speakers.

We must move in different circles then ;)

Maybe I should ask my kids...

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

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Post by coldtea » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:07 AM UTC

Or the counting is off...

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

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Post by markb139 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:13 AM UTC

throaway920181 wrote: post #319

RajT88 wrote: post #288

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Takes longer for some than others. Depends on your job title.

I'd say a small (single digit) percentage of people are able to accumulate $1.5 million over "a few" (2-3) years of working, but maybe I'm out of touch.

It's doable, but it took me closer to 20 years. I got to zero net assets in July 2001. Retired from paid work (mainly sw eng contracting) at the start of covid in April 2020.

I should say, at the start I wasn't married and had no dependents. Also, for large parts of those 20 years, I didn't need to own or use a car.

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

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Post by dwighttk » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC

Inflation

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

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Post by volemo » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:26 AM UTC

lapetitejort wrote: post #85

jihadjihad wrote: post #54

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Not until Nicolas Cage gets involved.

We need to sneak a CT scanner, into the Fed...?

Are there any "external"/"outwards" CT scanners? It'd have to somehow measure reflected radiation, I presume.

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

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Post by volemo » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:27 AM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #355

aetherson wrote: post #48

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Hacker News heist plan initiated.

For scientific purposes only obviously.

We'll count it and give it back. Promise.

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

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Post by volemo » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:29 AM UTC

Feuilles_Mortes wrote: post #172

Instead of writing the counting tool he could have used the Multi-Point Tool in ImageJ [1] [2]. I used it just this morning for counting some embryos I collected. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFNiPsVRoM [2] https://fiji.sc/

I just use Inkscape to place dots on the objects and then select all to see the amount. Beware of off by one error! ;)

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

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Post by Macha » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 10:33 AM UTC

aspenmayer wrote: post #378

Daneel_ wrote: post #373

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"This Friday" is the one during the current week, provided it's currently earlier than Friday. If it's Saturday/Sunday already and I want to talk about the Friday that's only 5 days away I would say "this coming Friday" (or just "Friday"). "Next Friday" is always a week+ away. If it's Tuesday and I say "next Friday", I ALWAYS mean the day 10 days away. If someone says "next Friday" to me and they mean the one in a fe…

What if they say “Friday week”?

The second Friday from today