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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.
From 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...
Seems pretty on-brand for the Fed As we say in my family: "close enough for government work!"
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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?)
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The second Friday from today
> The second Friday from today What if it’s Friday where you are, but isn’t for me yet? Would that be a week from tomorrow or two weeks from tomorrow, for me or for you?
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Every time I hear it, it befuddles me just like the first time. It seems like a syntax error or something. My mind literally reels, like the idea is a fish and I can nearly feel the fishing line drag but the syntax and grammar isn’t rigidly applied, and so I can’t increase the tension or the line will snap, as it isn’t rated for this hefty and impactful of an idea as when something occurs specifically. I don’t know i…
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".
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What if the person saying that means “Friday this week” sometimes and “Friday next week” other times? How can you know that they don’t from an isolated utterance? Can you know with reasonable certainty that the person saying it knows what you think they mean? From context you might know if it seems like they know how to use the phrase, but I always struggle to understand these quirks, perhaps because I heard these te…
> 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”.
If you're unfamiliar with the phrase then it's likely meaningless, but if you do know then there's no chance of getting it incorrect.
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"couple" and "few" are debatable, but thanks to Survivor we know definitively that "several" means seven.
Couple is not really debatable - it has a definition that includes 2. Not 2 or 3, or any more than 2. Just 2.