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Just like there are cat people and dog people, so there are math people and... all the rest of the population.
You see, while we, the mortal ones, still dread the memory of a cursed math exam which ruined our final semester back in high school and shattered our dreams, self-esteem, and carefree summer vacation ahead, some find great comfort in numbers.
If you’re one of them, looking for a space to flex your math muscle, you came to the right place. Welcome to the They Did The Math subreddit where 944k took ‘do the math’ literally and came up with very interesting results. “Useless yet interesting calculations,” states the community’s description and who doesn’t like arguments proven by the power of determination and careful mathematical calculation?
Scroll down, upvote your favorite posts, and be sure to check out our previous post with more examples of people and numbers being best friends.
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#1
Pretty Solid Plan!!
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I would prefer the 30 million dollars. I'm happy with the friends I have. 30 million is enough to live on for the rest of my life, would donate a lot and of course give some to family and friends.
DuchessDegu 4 years ago
Exactly, it'd take too much work to keep 30 million people happy. I bet at least a couple of thousand would turn on you anyway
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Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
Being a friend is a two-way street and out of 30 million loyal friends you're going to be helping someone move every weekend for the rest of your life...
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
30 mil dollars is not subject to change whereas 30 mil people will change their mind about in a second and life is not easy.Lol.
Roxanne D'souza 4 years ago
I'd take the money. I find it tough to keep up with only 3 different friends and get anxious when 2 message around the same time.
Jūras Barauskas 4 years ago
Jeff Bezzos' net worth increased by 75 billion dollars in 2020, which amounts to just over 200 mil per day. You we're sayin'?
Silvia John 4 years ago (edited)
So that person wants to have the friends only to make most money with them? Weird. That´s not what friends are for.
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#2
Can Someone Confirm Its True?
"Oxfam international said that... I don't know the exact figures but simple logic dictates that it certainly can easily be true. Think about it, most people in the world are poor, which means they have little to no net worth.
If Bezos has a net worth of 200 billion and each of these 4 billion people have 50 dollars in net worth, then you're already there. 50 dollars in net worth is not an outrageous number given that many Americans have negative net worth and little to no savings to speak of.
I don't know how much the top 8 are worth, but let's say it's 1 trillion. That means that the 4 billion are worth 250 dollars. Yeah that's plausible.
By the way even if you make 100,000 a year in the US you can have a net worth of 0 or negative net worth depending on what your savings/investments and liabilities are, which is often the case."
Kona Pake 4 years ago
Only after they polluted it with thousands of tons of rocket fuel.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Apparently during the pandemic 10 of the richest people gained over 3 trillion dollars whilst the poor lost over 900 billion dollars in the US alone.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
100 US corporations produce most pollution, yet they ask us to recycle. (They never ask us to reuse or reduce, because that would negatively affect their profit margin.)
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I make 80K a year, that's cash flows. Net worth is total Assets - Total Liabilities. I have equity in a home, that's positive net worth. I have equity in my vehicles, that's positive net worth. I have 135K in student loans which have no value because I can't sell my student loans to someone for a profit. Therefore, my student loans make me have a negative net worth. The deregulation of colleges in the 80s and 90s have cause tuitions to out pace inflation three times over. Don't just wipe out student debt, fix the core issue.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
A fellow has $200 billion and decides to give it all away to the people in the world. So he liquidates his holdings and gives each of the 8 billion people in the world $25. By the end of the week the money is spent and the corporations he owned are in tatters. - just sayin' ... so Don't let politicians tell you: -they created jobs. The boomers are retiring at 10,000 a day. Yup, there are jobs opening up -we won't tax you, we will tax the corporations. Well chum, corporations get all money, including taxes, from one source, sales, and that is you.
Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
The fun part is when you ask one of them what's in their pocket, they will all say "nothing". That's because they are not allowed to carry around their own money, or any other personal object. Even their Smartphones are controlled by the company. Everything they wear, everything they sign, everything they eat is all controlled. The richest men and women in the world are also completely devoid of freedom, money and sex (you heard that right). They are rich and powerless. Don't envy them.
Marina Ilina-lyew 4 years ago
If you have like 20 in the bank and no credit card debt, no students loans and no any negative effects on your accounts or ss/irs you are wealthier than most Americans
Leigh Boatright 4 years ago
Cant believe they wanted to drug test food stamp receivers in florida
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I couldn't believe it, until I came to "in florida". Now I don't have a problem believing it 🙁
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#3
A Mate Of Mine Did Some Snail Travelling Maths
Mateo Buysse 4 years ago (edited)
I am honestly laughing my ass off here. Just the idea of a murder cone snail that is sentient and out for blood, and able to go on land and in the sea, traveling on planes and cars just to kill you is slightly scary, quite hilarious and so over the top i can not help to LOL while typing this. I can totally picture a snail boarding a plane now XD
CultOfBambi 4 years ago
Just get someone else to pop the snail on a treadmill in the corner and get on with your life?
Ece Cenker 4 years ago
Take the money. Contract doesn't say anything against imprisoning the said snail in a jar and burying it in a dessert.
Katherine Heasley 4 years ago
Also, that estimate for how the snail travels is "as the crow flies." Once you count in obstacles that it would have to go over or around, it gets larger. However, if it's a smart snail and can catch transportation, you've got real problems.
Minecraft Nube 4 years ago
The longest know lifespan of a snail is only 25 years, while the average lifespan is 10, so you don’t need to be 100 years apart from the snail.
Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
Salt circle. Watch the snail die a writhe in agony every time it approaches. Then a small child says "But don't snails live in the ocean?"
While a small fraction of society enjoys numbers just as much if not more than writers love books, most of us, some secretly, some not, are somewhat scared of this discipline. In fact, there’s even a whole term for it named ‘math anxiety’ and it describes people who experience feelings of stress when faced with math-related situations.
Moreover, it has some real-life consequences. Math anxiety (MA) has been suggested to decrease the math performance of students. The research has found that MA has a direct, negative influence on students' performance and that this negative link between the two was strongest among senior high school students. It was particularly strong among studies using custom tests and studies that assessed problem-solving skills.
#4
I Stumbled On This Post And I’m Wondering If This Is True! Any Ideas ?
"According to the source it says it would take $20B to eliminate homelessness
The most expensive US aircraft carrier is $12.8B. So it's about 7.2B short. However, this is only the cost to build it, and excluded operational costs."
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
If you made homes for everyone, you'd get those who complain they aren't nice enough. Plenty of old factories to convert though all across USA, UK, and probably every other country with homelessness
Carrie de Luka 4 years ago
Yes, old factories and properties of numerous types that need work of some kind that could be made into reasonable housing. There isn't as much need to build on green belt land in the UK as the Government makes out there is! If they dealt with all the empty property that currently exists. In Surrey alone at the end of 2018, there were just over 12,200 empty properties and that was a rising trend.
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Chris Creighton 4 years ago
But home them for how long? Does this include needed psychiatric care? Food? Maintenance? I mean both carriers and this kind of project need maintenance.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Technically it is, because once you give them a home, they're not homeless. I get what you're saying though, it's lack of *affordable*housing, but that's on the developers who want profit over everything
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Yeah, but you can't kill anyone with houses, so what's the point of that?
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Also no mobile hospital, energy generator and water cleaning facility in one ship in case a natural disaster happens
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Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
It also excludes the costs of the planes that go on it too.
Watching 4 years ago
20 billion a year I believe. I know it takes a consistent $33 billion a year to eradicate world hunger. Which of course Bezos could also do. And not even feel it.
Al Cook 4 years ago
Your maths isn't that good is it? Bezos is currently worth c.$200b. That means by your figures he be through his entire net worth (only a small percentage of which would actually be cash) in 6 years! I think he'd feel that! If you lost 17% of your salary I bet you'd notice it too!
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David Dwyer 4 years ago
The thing is that people should work for their job. At least 50% of the people in the US are illegal immigrants, so this would be impossible
Laly Lynch 4 years ago
There are so many abandoned houses in the city I live in that surely can be fixed and brought up to code to house the many homeless people that are out here.
#5
Math Lead Them To This Conclusion
"Lead can also be created directly in supernova explosions. It doesn't have to originate from nuclear decay."
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
There are so many reasons the young-earthers are wrong, but the lead argument has always troubled me because it's utter nonsense. Yes it takes that long for u-238 to become lead, but not all lead came from u-238. It would be a more sensible (but still ridiculous) argument to calculate the time for 8B people on the planet to have started from just two and how long that would take.
matilda 4 years ago
Young-earthers is a thing?! I'm been told new thing every day!!!!! Can't wait for more earthers... we already have flat and young ones! What's next?
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
You guys really think we Christians are nuts. Science is real and the earth is not 4000 year old. Nothing in the bible says it is.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago
A lot of them are... I was raised Christian. Now I'm an atheist. I still know the Bible better than most Christians and definitely better than the hateful nut jobs currently claiming the title. Pretty sure Jesus didn't stutter when he preached compassion and duty to the poor, the sick and the needy. All I see these days are preachers in rolexes, sexual abuse, ignorance and cruelty.
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Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
The Bible began 4000 years ago and ended 1700 years ago. Abraham is the first real person in the Bible. Everything before from Adam to Noah was added later. The Bible begins when Abraham was already a middle aged man, so the Bible itself acknowledges there was time before the Book was written.
Earl Grey 4 years ago
That OP is not worthy of my time or attention. But for the rest, I would certainly recommend “How to Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan. D7710B6E-F...0-jpeg.jpg 
Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)
But Mesopotamia (where Abraham came from) was around 5000 years ago... and we know humans existed before those communities developed! Jericho was built ~8000 years ago.
#6
How Much Memory Could Be Stored Today In The Same Volume As The Image On The Left?
"A micro SD card has a volume of 165 mm3. I estimate that box to be 8'x3'x20'.. This comes out to around 82 million SD cards, assuming a 100% packing efficiency. At 1TB per card that would come out to 82 Exobytes. .
It's hard to find a reliable estimate of the total data on the internet, but this website says 44 zettabytes, which means our box contains about 0.2% of the internet. Storing the whole internet on 1TB SD cards would take around 7300 m3, equivalent to a cube about 20m per side or 3 Olympic swimming pools"
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
So amazing. If someone go to the past and say what is possible, their mind would blow.
Marnie 4 years ago
I stayed home sick from school one day and was watching some talk show. They had these two goofy guys on who said they predicted that everyone would have a computer in their house soon. The audience laughed. I thought they were very silly. I am now a software developer and have 5 computers in my house right now. I think it was Steve Jobs and whats-his-face.
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Danno Person 4 years ago
The object on the right is not an SD card. It looks like a raspberry pi zero micro computer. I believe those come with 1 GB of onboard ram, but no actual storage space. I believe the original post is referring to overall computing power, not storage.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
In 1968 a major insurance company was proud to show our group their new IBM computer. It occupied an entire floor in the basement and required a large staff to operate it. It had 4K of core memory. All data was on large magnetic tape reels. Programs were on punch cards, and batch processed. The system cost was $25 million.
So in order to find out where this belief that math is the most difficult science nut to crack out there comes from, we spoke with Dan Meyer, the Chief Academic Officer at Desmos, exploring the future of math, technology, and learning. Dan has been advocating for better math instruction here and on CNN, Good Morning America, etc. and he was named one of Tech & Learning’s 30 Leaders of the Future.
“Students often come to believe that math is strictly about getting right and wrong answers to problems about calculations, that there are many ways to be wrong and only one way to be right,” he said. However, “math, as it's practiced by mathematicians, by professionals, and by people across cultures, often emphasizes experimentation, play, coming up with an idea, testing it out, and improving it,” Dan explained.
#7
What Would The Price Difference Equate To? How Would Preparation Time And Labor Influence The Cost?
"I think we have to work this out at UK prices, because, as people have pointed out, that's a £3 tesco meal deal on the left, with a starbucks drink and a pastry. Also, we need to compare like with like, and US and UK food prices are vastly different.
As the meal deal items are from tesco, we can get the nutritional info from the website, which is important for working out the price.
The Salt and Vinegar McCoys are 251KCal, coke is 210KCal, and the sandwich looks closest to their chicken bacon and stuffing sandwiches, which is 483KCal. That's 944 KCal, so the other two items should add up to around 656KCal.
As three items are from tesco, I'm going to guess the other two are from the same store and that's a butter croissant from starbucks, at 259KCal costing £1.19 if you eat out, which I'm guessing is the situation as they've been taken away for this photo.
That means the drink is something from starbucks with 397KCal. A 500ml coke bottle is 23.5cm high, so that looks like a 18cm tall starbucks cup, maybe 16cm without the lid. A venti cup is a little over 15cm tall, which means that's a venti.
There actually is a venti drink from Starbucks with a calorie count of 397, which is a hot chocolate with whole milk, and as that's £2.65 to go, that brings the left hand total to £6.84.
That's the easy part.
Now the right hand side. Reverse image search on the cropped right hand side didn't show anything up, so doing it the hard way, we have avocado on ryvita, mixed berries, yoghurt with mixed berries, Looks like spinach on two of the plates, kale on two, yoghurt, broccoli, cauliflower, tomato, and then it is a bit more guess-y. Top right plate has some sort of grain, maybe rice, maybe bulgar wheat or somthing. There's also something spreadable, I'm guessing houmous. I'd guess that's bulgar wheat with bell peppers, houmous with a little paprika on top, and kale.
The plate of mixed berries in the middle towards the top just looks like strawberries and blueberries.
Left hand side middle looks like yoghurt with chia seeds sprinkled on, wilted spinach, and something red which looks tomato based, so maybe a salsa? I could be way off and it could be a mashed root veg like carrot or sweet potato also, but I think I see a little liquid from it at the lower end where it meets the spinach, so I'm going with a mild salsa.
On the middle right, there's broccoli and cauliflower, kale and something red, which I think is tomato, but may possibly be bell pepper? The other item is a little harder, but I think that's a baked potato with tuna filling.
Bottom left plate is wilted spinach again, tomato, and some sort of mushroom dish. Looks like there's kale, tomato, and something else in there. Maybe cauliflower, but very possibly a bunch of ingredients you can't tell at that resolution and just from a picture.
Bottom right is just yoghurt with more strawberries and blueberries.
Now for pricing. I'll get the prices off tesco, but lots of this stuff is seasonal, so it'll vary through the year. Note that UK food prices are lower, 'cause last time I did this, no-one believed we pay so little for food. You can check the prices at tesco.com if you use a vpn or something to pretend you're in the UK.
Ryvita - get the off brand ones for 69p. About 28 per pack, so 5p for the ones shown. I'll do all the pricing like that as you could divide the food amongst multiple meals or multiple people.
Avocado, 75p. I'm going to say that's a whole avocado in the image.
Bulgar wheat, 500g for £1.15, so let's say 75g, costing about 17p.
Bell pepper, 86p for 3, so probably 28p for one will get you enough bell pepper for all the stuff in the picture.
Houmous, £1.10. You can make it yourself for less, but that's a bit OTT for this calculation.
Regular kale is out of stock when I searched, which is fine, as whenever you do this you'll find some stuff is more expensive, so it'll even out. That means buying the expensive kale, at 1.5 for 200g, which will do all the kale in the picture.
Let's make sure to include the paprika, which is 90p for 52g which can mostly sit in your cupboard, so let's add 2p in paprika.
Strawberries - £1.39 for 227g, enough for the whole image.
Blueberries - 89p for 125g, again enough for every dish.
Mild salsa - 80p
spinach - 900g for £1.50. Given how much this stuff shrinks as you cook it, even if you could split it over more than one day, I'll play it safe and just say that's for this set of meals.
Chia seeds are £1 for 150g, so that's maybe a 5p sprinkle at most.
Yoghurt - 75p for 500g, which also means we now have everything for the bottom right dish.
One big spud - 25p
tuna - £1.20 frozen bag of cauliflower and broccoli mix is 89p for 900g, so that's 25p in broccoli/cauliflower at most.
We already have the kale and pepper
One tomato - 15p
two mushrooms - 12p
We probably already have the other ingredients, but let's add in a little more in case there's something significant missed for that recipe. Based on the existing prices, I'll add in another 10p for a possible mystery ingredient.
That gives us a total of £11.32 for the stuff on the right, vs £6.84 for the stuff on the left.
Labour time will influence the cost, but all the actual meals on the right are super quick to prepare. The worst might be the potato, but even then it's about a minute to prepare it, then you just leave it in the oven and come back. All the meals have suprisingly low prep time."
Ivana Bogdan 4 years ago
I would say same for us who are reading all this :D
Load More Replies... Al Cook 4 years ago
It shows very well why people eat crap though, quicker and cheaper than the alternative.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
Heads up: Check out the meatless burger patties nutrition labels. They have 100+ more calories than beef.
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Henry Cheves 4 years ago
How many times could this person have cooked the meal on the right hand side while they were doing the calculations?
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
To take the accounting out of your diet choices try the Fitnesspal app; it's free too.
First Name Last Name 4 years ago
I am looking at the pics thinking that you would definitely have to factor in the cost of toilet paper.
#8
Is This True?
"The video I just saw showed that they spent about 5 minutes naming the victims of 9/11, of which there were 2997 victims. Johns Hopkins has the USA at 463,437. All you need to do is set up a ratio.
5 minutes / 2997 deaths = x minutes / 463437 deaths
463437 * 5 / 2997 = x
x = 773.1681681681681681681681681681...
Which works out to 12 hours 53 minutes 10.09 seconds"
Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
Hmm 650,000 names, divided into 65 columns on a movie screen, scrolled at 1 name per second, 1000 names per column, 1000 seconds, or 16 minutes. Sounds like the end of a Marvel Movie.
First Name Last Name 4 years ago
Over 800,000 people die of suicide in the US every year. Yet nobody is mandating mental health evaluations (even to buy firearms), or mandating treatment for the clinically depressed. So forgive me if I find it hard to believe that the government is doing these things for covid out of a sense of altruism or concern for public health.
Al Cook 4 years ago
Are those figures for people who died OF covid, or like they reported in the UK people who died WITH Covid? It can make a big difference.
Dodo 4 years ago
I don't really understand this argument. Let's say someone died of cancer but also had COVID. The COVID will have screwed their already-screwed immune system, making their death more of a certainty. If you die of blood loss while fighting a bear, the bear is your cause of death.
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Why Can’t People Do Math Properly? Recalculate!
"The only error here is the rounding in 4 weeks per month. There's actually around 365.24 / 12 / 7 =~ 4.348 weeks in a month.
So you'd make $5,000 * 4.348 = $21,740 per month and $21,740 * 12 = $260,880 per year.
That means it'd take you $1,000,000,000 / $260,880 =~ 3,833 years to get to a billion dollars.
Yeah, it's a bit off from what they got but it illustrates the point just as well.
All the other maths is correct."
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Not all billionaires have their money liquid, a lot of it is tied up in effectively worthless shares that could tomorrow suddenly be actually worthless, but today are their fortune. Point still stands though, 10M a year should be more than enough for ANYONE
Remi Flynne 4 years ago
I think I could manage quite nicely on, ooh, even half that! 😁
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Perspective: 1 million seconds = 11.5 days vs 1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
Jeannie Nykula 4 years ago
Everyone is forgetting the amount you fork over in taxes: sales taxes, income taxes, property taxes, usage taxes, utility taxes, import taxes, public school taxes, state taxes, local taxes, "sin" taxes, licensing taxes, permits, etc., etc. All in, the government will take at least 50% of all that you earn.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Not if you have enough money to pay the best accountants who will show you the way to pretty offshore-places to stash some of that money. There's even a lot of legal ways to get out of paying the whole amount.
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Silvia John 3 years ago
But that's only possible if you don't spend a cent of it in the whole time. How is that supposed to work if you have expenses every month?
Mazer 4 years ago
I have never been impressed with wealth, never will be. I have seen what having too much money does to people, I have lived what having no money does to people. In all cases having enough to pay for your needs and indulge in some reasonable wants AKA living comfortably is my dream.
Rissie 4 years ago
But it's not how money accumulation works. If you manage to figure out how to get 250,000 dollars a year, you will be more risk prone and find a way to invest some of that money. One good guess and your money doubles way faster than you would by just working. Aka, you take some risk and let others do the actual work. Your money does provide for work for those people though. The system provides for great accumulation so those big pools of money can be used for bigger risk taking adventures that need one great guess by one morron/billionaire to give it some direction. Bezos was lucky with his product and built a rocket. His company is not built on any values though. Not every billionaire will change the world greatly, but that's the game. If one of them does, it will provide for everyone though.
Jeannie Nykula 4 years ago
Also, because the government is printing money in order to pay back its debt service with "cheaper" dollars, the buying power of your money is dwindling on a daily basis. Per the post about lumber prices, you now have to pay $2 for a board that would have cost you $1 back in December 2020. If your money loses half its value every 9 months, it wouldn't take long for a million dollars to be worth maybe $25,000.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
It looks like they are trying to make a statement, but I don't know what.
He also noted that it's the math students need right now. When asked how you teach children to be interested in mathematics so they don't dread it as they turn into adults, Dan had a couple of suggestions. “Ask questions that offer students opportunities to draw on their senses and their intuition, questions that have lots of possible answers, where even the wrong answers are interesting.”
He continued: “For example, show students a pattern of shapes that's growing predictably. Ask them what they notice about the pattern? What do they wonder? How long they think it'll take the pattern to reach a certain size? And only then help them with their calculations.”
#10
In Soviet Russia, Coffee Is Served At A Ridiculous Pace
"For anyone wanting context, Stakhanov was a common caricature for a while in soviet culture (based on a real person), about people who go way above and beyond in their job. Like a chuck norris, but for manual labor.
It started out serious (the real person apparently hauled 100 tons of coal in 6 hours), and he was promoted as a person to be emulated. But the tales got more and more outlandish as time went on, as people got disillusioned with the whole idea"
Ian Reynolds 4 years ago
This was the Soviet Union, I imagine a shift would have been 24 hours, they had to make the comrades work hard.
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
In communist countries coffee was only for the party leaders, the working class drank ersatz, roasted chickpeas. It's true. A pack of 250 grams of real coffee and a pack of Kent cigarettes could solve a lot of problems, like a visit to the doctor, a sick leave, the school situation of a child etc.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
latte was not a thing in soviet times. A coffee with milk - sure. Instant coffee - sure. Even mixing a truck cistern of instant coffee with a half cistern of milk - There you have it. - probably 1000 servings of "latte"
#11
Does Zuckerberg Hold 2% Of All Millennial Wealth?
"Millenials own 5000B wealth, per this:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charting-the-growing-generational-wealth-gap/
Zuckerberg owns 111B of it, per this:
https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/?sh=33dcc42b3e06"
Monday 4 years ago
Yeah but Zuck-Zuck isn't human so I don't think we should be counting him anyway.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Technically, he has no money, because robots are not legally people so they can't own anything.
Load More Replies... Tami 4 years ago
I want to see what millennials spend. All the millennials I knew at work traveled extensively, ate out for lunch nearly every day, and drove nice, new, sometimes very expensive cars.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I'm a Millennial and make 80K a year. About 1/4,of that goes to mortgage in a very modest house for Houston. Another 1/4 goes to health insurance, vision, and dental premiums. The rest of it goes to utilities and two car notes. Both my cars are 2016 Ford Fusion SE basic options. Bought both cars at same time and negotiated a discount. Not cheap cars, but no BMW or Lexus. Your statement is not true for everyone
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Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago (edited)
Boomers inherited wealth from their parents. Rather than save for their own children, they spens it all on themselves. At the same time, the voted to cut taxes, and thus let the infrastructure fall to pieces. Furthermore, cutting taxes has the effect of allowing the wealthiest to gain even a larger proportion of the existing wealth. It also means that a larger share of the costs of fixing the infrastructure will fall on the middle class who inherited the least from their parents. Edited to add: as a rule BIPOC were generally excluded from this accumulation and transfer of wealth, since a lot of it had to do with things like the GI Bill, from which they were excluded, the post-WWII booming job market, etc. So if you are a BIPOC of the Boomer generation, you likely did not get much.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Someone should tell my parents about this because I don't think they are aware of the wealth they were supposed to have given me.
Load More Replies... Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg walks around with empty pockets. Facebook is rich. Mark is not. That's how they get away without paying taxes. All the money he spends is part of the company.
#12
How True Is This???
"Jeff Bezos net worth: $181,200,000,000
Baltimore average net worth: $555,423
Baltimore median net worth: $255,000
Baltimore population: 593,490
Total net worth (without Bezos): $329,637,996,270
Total net worth (with Bezos): $510,837,996,270
Average net worth, with Jeff Bezos: $860,735.
(I assume the median would remain at $255,000)"
PixxelDust 4 years ago
you underestimate the spending abilities of Jeff Bezos, who took a joyride into space.
Load More Replies... Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
He doesn't have that big an income though so this is wrong, his net worth is NOT an income, it's based off shares and you can't tax something that doesn't exist. He could quite easily have 0 income and still have the same wealth.
John C 4 years ago
Thank you, well said. Apples to oranges here. Still, I agree with the "tax the rich" part
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Benjamin Tang 4 years ago (edited)
Taxing the rich makes all the rich leave, taking all their jobs, taxable incomes, assets, innovations, ideas, and billions of dollars away from the American economy abroad. Cases in point: Sweden, the US yacht industry, India.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Which is why we need international rules about taxing companies. If you can't run and hide, you'll have to pay.
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#13
Shows Us That Germany Has Bad Average Connection Speeds
NsG 4 years ago
There's a concept called sneakernet. Which basically states that's it's faster to ship a large dataset by land than it is to so it over the network. Basically, if it were still a thing, it would have been faster (and cheaper?) to buy a COD disc from Amazon!
Robert T 4 years ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a speeding lorry.
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Cip IESAN 4 years ago
I'm in Romania and I have 485.76 Mbps download speed / 25.09 Mbps upload speed (Ookla test) the moment I write this.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago (edited)
Fly to Lithuanian and download at 100 MB/s at public area, a square for example ;)
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
COD MW is less than $50 USD. Soooo, yeah. Buy the game in a physical format instead of downloading!
Wyn Williams 4 years ago (edited)
That isn't taking into account COD server limitations though pretty sure it's faster then 5 :)
Karin Jansen 4 years ago
Or just drive to the neighboring country of the Netherlands, also having a speed of 80 Mbps. Depending on where in Germany you live, even faster! :)
#14
In 100 M Of Space, How Many More Bricks Would A Regular Straight Fence Have?
"As you can see in the picture it's a very thin wall, looks to be 1 brick thick. A straight wall only has support on one axis and would need to be at least a few bricks thick to stay standing. The curved wall allows more support in multiple axis allowing the use of less bricks."
The Panda society 4 years ago
These are largely only in Suffolk and Norfolk and are delightfully called 'crinkle crankle walls'.
Rissie 4 years ago
That name only is a good reason to build them that way.
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#15
If You Blended All 7.88 Billion People On Earth Into A Fine Goo (Density Of A Human = 985 Kg/M3, Average Human Body Mass = 62 Kg), You Would End Up With A Sphere Of Human Goo Just Under 1 Km Wide. I Made A Visualization Of How That Would Look Like In The Middle Of Central Park In NYC
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
Yes! I can see myself! I'm in the upper-right part of the ball, that pixel with the gorgeous color!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
With my luck, I'm guessing I'm somewhere at the bottom crashing under all this weight!
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Andy-Pandy Broomfield 4 years ago
and if you could eliminate the empty space in every atom of said 7.88 Billion people. They/we would all fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
#16
How Much Money Would It Be If The U.s Government Did This?
"First source I found shows FY2020 military budget is $714B, so cutting 25% would be $178.5B. I think that's a conservative number, considering that they may have gone over budget and it'll likely increase going forward.
A very simple look at wealth tax would be looking at total net worth of millionaires or billionaires in the US. Not able to find a distinct number for millionaires, but I see that the 660 billionaires in the US have a total wealth of $4.1T. 1% of that is $41B."
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
All that would happen is the rich would find a way to avoid the taxes (Amazon, who the US government defended when the EU tried to tax them properly and fined them!), or they'd move to a lower tax country and then you'd lose the tax you currently get from them. The world sucks and rich people are d***s, but that's the reality of why super-taxing the rich is a fool's errand
beastmachine. 4 years ago
I wanted to know why should a wealth tax be levied on a person? I understand taxes on services or products or say even the income but taxing something that's just lying there is utter bs. I anything I'd even like more of inheritance tax
Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
And how about the cost of all the military equipment that was left in Afghanistan?
Benjamin Tang 4 years ago
I agree with most except the wealth tax. Things like those simply scare all the rich out of the country, which will annihilate the economy.
FrankStellar 4 years ago
I think they understand that jobs would be lost, that's partly the point. Most anti American sentiment is over military/foreign policy so it can equally be argued that attacks on the US would fall not rise.
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Is This Really The Price Difference In Wood Between January 2020 And June 2021?
"For what it's worth, I live in the pacific northwest - timber country - and the price of wood has gone up over 100%. Elsewhere I know it's more. I have been harvesting fallen trees in the woods for projects lately. The complication with this question is that the prices have inflated different amounts in different places . So this could be correct where the photo was taken."
beastmachine. 4 years ago
Can anyone from the US answer why you guys use wood for constructing homes when they still end up costing hundreds of thousands?
Joshua Ehm 4 years ago
Unfortunately most of us are not construction workers but I was wondering why a lot of homes in the UK aren't detached?
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
For context for people who are confused, this is during COVID. The U.S. still has plenty of lumber. We even have plenty of lumber at lumber mills. Lumber mills though are notoriously crowded places that run 24 hours per day. With COVID, the mills had to social distance and sanitize between shifts. Their capacity went way down -- and you can't just easily start up another mill. Meanwhile, the demand for lumber skyrocketed as many Americans suddenly started working from home and devoting weekends to repair/rebuilding/"around the house" projects. Construction was also one of the few industries that continued in the shut downs. That meant astronomical lumber prices. The prices are declining though as people are returning to pre-COVID routines, focusing on other industries and hobbies, and vaccination rates increasing allowing for more workers at the mills.
Tony Nichols 4 years ago
Those prices are RIGHT NOW, "post Covid lockdowns". The price of lumber is sky high, due to the lockdowns slowing production (duh), and the shortage of workers, due to extended unemployment benefits and federal covid compensation. We are at about 40% workforce, now.
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ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
Cheaper than steel and bricks. Easy to remodel and attach heavy items to wood studs within walls. Stone/concrete and steel are not great insulators against cold or heat whereas with wood, you can add better insulation and is easier to heat/cool depending on the season which saves on electricity. Also there are wood structures that are centuries old that are still in top shape. And yes this is the real price difference.
Beans 4 years ago (edited)
Having lived in stone and brick houses (Australia and Europe) and having lived in the states-- in multiple properties that were wood-- you guys absolutely use waaaay more electricity. Houses in Europe and Australia that are brick are way better insulated. The windows are better made and the heat and coolness is retained more. I used AC and heat constantly in the US because the rooms wound reflect the immediate heat of outside. I have been in properties in the US where you literally cannot turn radiators off. Their lowest setting is 'low'. Even in summer. How does that save energy? My house in Australia uses 1/3rd the electricity we were using in the states, it also stays cool for days in a heatwave. In the US, one hot day meant the house was hot. The only reason its wood is because its cheap, everything else is moot. They COULD be better insulated if most houses were built really well like houses in Scandinavia and the like. But they aren't.
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Wyn Williams 4 years ago
The only reason for the short term hike is because of supply and demand after a long drop in house building due to covid it will drop back down
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
WTF? In Romania, with 1000 bucks, you can buy your own part of a forest! All the stuff in the picture (both piles!) would cost about 100 dollars...
Lorraine R 4 years ago
There was a bench in a mall near me that was made of recycled plastic 2 x 4s. Very sturdy. I thought that by now framing material for houses would be made of the same thing. It would be flexible and immune to warping, mold, termites, etc. That would be a great end use for plastic grocery bags and containers.
bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago
My mother just logged "the property" where we built our log cabin she still lives. She made a whopping 4500.00. The loggers left a mess and the value of the lot went down 180.000.00. It makes me so sad.
#18
How Many Bees ?
"Some additional math:
- 10k bees weigh about 3 pounds, so 6.3M bees is about 1900 lbs. No problem for the car.
- 1/2 cup of bees (0.00418 cu ft) = 300 bees. Using that with a 141.3 cu ft interior results in 10.1 million bees.
- 30k-60k bees need 2 deep boxes for a hive (3.33 cu/ft). So if you wanted the bees to build a hive in the Lexus, there would only be room for 1.2-2.4 million bees.
Any way you do the math, it's the same order of magnitude."
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
The bee is my new unit of measurement of volume. I'll have 1200 bees of ale please barkeep!
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
*cut to 1200 drunk bees* *there is chaos in the streets*
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Ashlee King 4 years ago
I'm horrific at math and I'm just staring at my screen in wonder at this absolute display of super powers 😮
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
If they are in someone else's car - sure. In mine? I'd be having some issues
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#19
Calculating Rent In 1940
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Vote those old post depression wrinkle sacks out and get some millennials in office
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Anyone who remembers the Great Depression would have to be at least 5yo in 1930. Most who were born in 1925 are already dead. The problem is not the Greatest Generation, but the Silent and Boomer generations. I'm a Gen Xer so, technically, I don't even exist.
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Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
Hell, just fifteen years. My first apartment was $525/month. I now pay $1,445. And I'm about 20 miles away from that first place.
Gene Perry 4 years ago
My parent's mortgage was $79 a month. 4 bedrooms, two bath, garage, large yard. Of course, they took out their mortgage in the early 70's. Oh, BTW, that $79 dollars included an escrow account to pay property taxes.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
When calculating for inflation did you use the nominal amount? Also, since calculating over a long period of time, did you include the Fisher Effect?
Lawrence Edwards 4 years ago
The price of rent will always outpace the cost of living in a capitalist system where real estate may be privately owned. It is 100% inherent, a flaw in the system, if you will. It has absolutely nothing to do with elected officials. Real estate is subject to the same economic principles as every other form of investment, specifically risk/reward. The higher the perceived risk, the greater the potential rate of return needs to be. Compared to investments that have an expected rate of return similar to inflation, real estate will have both costs that reduce the rate of return, (property taxes, maintenance & management costs, etc.) and higher risk (tenants defaulting, destruction by tenants or acts of god, potential loss of market value, etc). When both of these are properly accounted for, you will always end up with a number greater than the rate of inflation.
Benjamin Tang 4 years ago
Raising the minimum might work...or it will get every single unskilled employee fired.
Monday 4 years ago
Fewer hours than they do now. You could easily live a fairly modest life by working a normal 9-5 job. These days you need dual incomes to sustain the same lifestyle with your 9-5 job.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 4 years ago
What I am trying to say is that adjusting for inflation is supposed to include the inflation of the cost of goods. That is the very definition of inflation.
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Big Ooof If True. I Checked The Link And The Numbers Did Make Sense. Can Someone Double Check With Me?
"So the US spent $718.69 billion on military stuff last year. So 3% of that is $21.560 Billion. Using the stats from this website:
https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
You’d have to be able to feed each of the ~820 million critically hungry people on $26.29 each- for a whole year. maybe feasible in some countries, since the US dollar can be pretty strong, but definitely not in most.
Granted, the sign could be suggesting an investment in infrastructure to make food cheaper for everyone. But on the face of things, you could probably end world hunger for maybe six meals"
Amanda Black 4 years ago
No with the massive unemployment this would bring there would be way more hungry people.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
wait... do you think USA can only employ and profit from war?
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Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
... or that there are not enough produce on Earth (and this was BEFORE main producer of grains were attacked in a war)
Dodo 4 years ago
I imagine the US government's way of looking at this would be 'let's nuke all the countries with starving people; starvation solved'.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
they wouldn't even nuke a country unless there's oil they can take
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 4 years ago
Well pretty much anyone with the disposable electricity to be hanging out on Bored Panda is in the position of "so and so need oil".
Heather Menard 4 years ago
This isn't true because the government is involved. They are greedy bastards they would find a way to keep the money for themselves.
#21
Could Jeff Bezos Really Give All Amazon Employees $105k And Still Be As Rich As He Was Before The Pandemic?
"It’s complicated. Maybe calculated as his net-worth that’s probably true, but you need to understand that he hasn’t that money just lying around.. most of his wealth is bound as amazon stock. He can’t just take money and give it someone else. And if he‘d give away amazon stock, it would probably crash the stock market and would be guilty for market manipulation, regulations are pretty strict on that.
Yes, he should definitely do much more for amazon employees, but assuming he can just hand out sh*tloads if money doesn’t reflect reality."
beastmachine. 4 years ago
THIS IS SO TRUE. This exact statement is what majority of people don't understand, there are very very few people who actually have hundreds of millions in cash lying around. Majority of the wealth just like you and me is tied to objects. And even if he sells all his stocks he wouldn't even be able to get 40-50% due to dilution of value due to excess supply
Edgar Rops 4 years ago
I still do not understand, why would anyone need, or even want, so much wealth in whichever form...
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Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
This. People don't understand how wealth works at the top of the food chain. There are maybe one or two actual billionaires, the rest are only that rich "on paper" and tomorrow they could be bankrupt.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Uhm. Please explain what would make someone an actual billionaire in comparison to the ones on paper? Like... does Rhianna not count as one because she has most of it in assets, but some true one sits on a vault full of gold? Honest question here!
Load More Replies... Bob Belcher 4 years ago
As a former financial regulator, there is nothing stopping anyone from selling any amount of stock. Now, it would be absolutely stupid to sell $100B worth of stock all at once as the person would have to pay capital gains tax on it. But there is no law or regulation stopping them.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
but if you give people that amount they would finally have the opportunity to leave their horrible exploitative job... people don't stay poor because they don't work enough, people stay poor because it's convenient for the rich to keep them poor and without options
raphafou krattou 4 years ago
It's not complicated it just show you have to starve people to become rich as this system was design for. Share has always be a cursed word for the richest
yellowphantom 4 years ago
Keep in mind though that even if much of their wealth is "on paper", they can still buy themselves several multi million dollar homes, a private jet, throw themselves million dollar parties and not ever have to spend one second wondering if they can afford their medication or send their kid to college. It would be hard to liquidate all their assets at once but in the rare event they do not have enough income for, say, that second yacht, they can either sell a few assets or any bank will give them the credit they need.
Aimee Lou 4 years ago
He could certainly sell some of his "objects" and have LOTS of cash money. Just because his wealth is tied up in assets and not liquid doesn't mean he couldn't do A LOT to better help his employees. A CEO in Seattle took a pay cut of about a million so he could increase his staff's minimum salary to $70k. https://scoop.upworthy.com/ceo-proves-critics-wrong-after-taking-pay-cut-to-raise-staffs-minimum-salary?fbclid=IwAR2oAHBIh0jor2OYZV1LU8baXEA9mrb0JvrFrvmhcFAwloLhlrx2aWIkMeo
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Total actual, physical US currency is about $2 trillion. That's money out in the economy, being spent, in piggy banks and pickle jars, etc. Maybe he can give each employee 5 shares of stock and let them pretend...
#22
How Many Km Of Rna Is Needed To Vaccinate The Entire World?
memyselfandI 4 years ago
It’s the nearest star to Earth other than the Sun, and it still looks just like any other speck. So yes, far.
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#23
Can Someone Check The Conversion Rate And Inflation On This One? Merry Christmas!
"According to the Wikipedia arcticle for bob cratchit 15 shilling per week back then amounts to £36 or $54 US per week in 2015. With 52 weeks in a year (actual 1843 week count), that amoungs to $54*52=$2,808. The statement in the Post is incorrect."
Dodo 4 years ago
There's 20 shillings in a pound so Bob worked for the equivalent of 75p per week in 1843. That's £97.75 in 2021, or $135.40. So Bob likely worked 6 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for the 2021 equivalent of $7,040.80. I think the OP assumed a bob was a pound, which accounts for the giant change.
Adrian 4 years ago
Yep, I went through decimalization in the UK and a shilling was worth 5p in "new money". So £97.75 per week is about right.
Load More Replies... Terry Tobias 4 years ago
It's embarrassing when a fellow American doesn't bother to do some basic research into another culture before making a statement about it. And who would actually think that Bob Cratchit made more than minimum wage... that's the whole point of the story!
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
20 shillings was FOUR DAYS' wages for a "skilled tradesman". 1 pound was 20 bob, or 20 shillings. So Cratchit made less than 1 pound a week.
#24
Making Water At Home Is Something You Might Not Want To Be Home For. Or Have A Home After
"a. Isn’t this basically rocket fuel and b. I’m pretty sure they do this in the Martian if you’ve seen the movie. otherwise cool calculations"
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
And that, is why hydrogen power would be amazing, although the fuel cell is MUCH safer
Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Whenever you burn a candle, or just light the match for that matter, you are effectively making water at home -albeit only a very small quantity and it s likely to manifest itself on a window, in your fridge or another cold surface a dew.
Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Regarding b. I think they were about as far from "home" as it was possible for them to get in the Martian
#25
Hey Google, How Many Days Since July 4th, 1776?
"89,539 days"
DC 4 years ago
Wrong again, comrade. Wacht auf, verdammte dieser Erde, die stets man noch zum Hungern zwingt! - I might envy my coworker, who was longer in the company, still is an idiot and makes more than I do ... but people paid in the 2 or 3 figure millions a year - that is just obscene. Robber barons ... well, they do exist. Exploiting people and getting rich thereby isn't hard and honest work, it is taking advantage of those who cannot defend them, who have to take any and every job just because they cannot afford even a small gap in their income, not even a month, often. I'm an engineer, I'm by no means poor, but if I'd be out of a job suddenly, I'd have major problem just to make sure my bills are paid in the gap between end of payment from work and start of getting unemployed aid ... and I do not live in the US, but in germany, where social security is, in comparison, just about paradise for everyone.
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#26
Is This Accurate With How Much Their Tax Is? Or Is This Hooey?
"That just looks like a 3% tax. If that's what you're talking about, then it's accurate.
To do the math, take the "leave them with" amount, add back in the "would owe" amount, and you have the amount they're starting with. Multiply that by .03 and you get the "would owe" amount again."
Kona Pake 4 years ago
They are going to fight you tooth and nail to the death to keep every penny.
Tee Witt 4 years ago
Or move where tax is cheaper, or maybe buy their own country.
Load More Replies... ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
Flat tax would be better for everyone. If you make $0, you pay $0.
Benjamin Tang 4 years ago
Taxing the rich will scare all the rich out of the country (India, US yachts, Sweden) and hurt the poor.
Les Izmore 4 years ago
A couple hundred million in political contributions can keep them from paying billions in taxes.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
California's tax rate is 13%. So.... Plus there is already an additional wealth tax of 1% for anyone making over $1mil. And they want to raise it more, even though there is a surplus.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Much of the money doesn't really exist though, it's share value which in the blink of an eye could (unlikely as it is) be worth zero.
DC 4 years ago
That may be, but if we corrected it for reliable value only ... they'd still be well off, even if over 90 % is out of the equation and the rich-tax is relatively high. I mean ... to spend a billion (the german "Milliarde" - 1000 millions), at a rate of 10000 $ or € or whatever a day, you'd still need like 270 years to finally get rid of sleazy old green again - that's a decent used car every day, or a fine new one every week, a decent house every month ... you know, although you can eat gold (... that is so ... stupidly decadent ... flush it down the John in the end ... disgusting!), ... nobody needs that much money. Putting it to good use is required - that this even has to be done by law, and they don't do so themselves tells a lot about humans ...
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#27
Aside From The Meme, Is This True?
"The conversion formulas are:
SPL = 20 * log10( p / p_0 )
p = p_0 * 10 ^ ( SPL / 20 )
With p_0 = 2e-5 Pa and 194 dB you get 100 kPa or 1 atm. After that point a sound isn’t really a sound but more of a shock wave, and it’s not clear how meaningful dB measurements are.
At 1100 dB you get a pressure of 2e50 Pa. Pressure isn’t really the right way to measure a black hole because size is also very important. But for reference, a Neutron Star, where atomic structure has collapsed, can have a pressure on the order of 1034 Pa. So 1050 Pa sounds like enough to me."
N. Taylor Blanchard 4 years ago
If the earth became a black hole it would not effect the solar system at all let alone destroy the galaxy,
#28
Is This Why It's So Hard To Buy A House These Days?
"Now, there are issues with this, because we aren't weighing population growth and decline in these cities (rust belt population, demographic collapse of certain cities such as Detroit, etc.,). I think they just took "average price in X city." Back then there wasn't the insane income inequality from city-to-city either, so that factors. (e.g., median wage in a city that would go on to form the Rust Belt back then was closer to that of the coastal cities. Now you can famously buy houses in ghettos where there are no jobs for very little money- but you have no municipal services, among other issues.)
I genuinely think they just "averaged" these cities out by 'large municipal area.' I can't factor for wage growth in areas like Silicon Valley. We've seen extreme bifurcation in value and wages in these localities since 1971.
So, I instead took just my nearest city I lived in, Philadelphia. It's a sort of "normal" city that isn't an outlier (it's not exactly Detroit, nor San Francisco, but 'somewhere in-between.') So I'll use it as a yardstick, because I'm not spending more than like, 5 minutes on this thing, and hell, someone's gotta actually take a swing at this.
In 1971 a home in Philadelphia was 14,800, or in today's dollars, just a hair under $100,000.. For today, however, in that same municipality, it is $280,000., with the data ending in June and showing zero signs of slowing if you look at the chart's rising tail.
For everyone saying "but it doesn't have modern amenities-" I don't think anyone buying a "starter home" cares if it was built in the 1800s, 1900s, 1950s, 1970s, or today. Most want a place to build equity where they can stop burning their cash on rent and start putting it toward saving, maybe move up to a better home later once they have the equity.
Most places are at least wired for some kind of broadband. Most places have electrical outlets that meet code.
Past that, you can run either a window unit or space heater if you really have to, with the other differences being so small as to not matter, (at least when it comes to starter homes. It's not like it's a smart home that's hyper-modern.)
Starter homes of a modest size aren't really built anymore- and there's a reason for that. But for people 'starting out' in homeowning, it looks like the last few years and some change just made that a lot harder."
Kona Pake 4 years ago
If the prices of houses increased at the same rate as insulin, the “average” house built in 2011 at $166,000, would cost $498,000 today.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago (edited)
I work in a pharmacy and the prices of a lot of medications are extortionate. I've seen insulin for $4k. Epipens for $350. I just saw a medication that has to be made in a specialty pharmacy and, no joke, cash price was $17,499 without insurance. That's what I bought my CAR for! How on earth do we continue to justify this?! It kills me to see couples trying to figure out how to afford insulin/xarelto/eliquis on a fixed income or without insurance. I can sometimes drop the price with coupons/discount cards, but when I can't I feel terrible
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I'm from Philly and in 1971 my Dad bought our 2 story, 3 bedroom brick row home for about 8K. It just listed for over 350K last year! In the Kensington section too! Ouch!
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Until more Boomers die. Then there will be a glut of housing in about 20 yrs.
lazy panda 4 years ago
When? 1980? I'm from a town of 60 people and mediocre, 50+ year old houses there are going for at least 40K.
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I Saw This On R/Memes And Was Wondering How Far This Will Take Us From The Sun By The Time It Swallows Earth
"There's a paper published that calculates what fate the Earth suffers due to the sun swelling into a red giant. I'll see if I can find it.
Here it is:. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&qsp=1&q=fate+of+earth+sun&qst=ib#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3Dqw-giyuR1AMJ
Anything inside 1.15au currently is doomed.
To elaborate: the sun will likely puff up to red giant with a diameter encompassing Mars. Which suggests that Earth will definitely be engulfed. That simple model however neglects that the sun will have lost a significant amount of mass by then which would tend to cause the orbits of the planets to expand. The paper calculates that even given the mass loss the Earth is still doomed."
#30
Scott Manley Did The Math
"Couple issues with this post.... 1) it’s not downloadable on Steam 2) Ark: Survival Evolved is much larger with dlc involved."
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Also, 90% of that size is textures to look pretty and 10% is crappy game that's exactly the same as every other CoD
#31
Is This Correct? And How Much Power Could That Generate?
"That 5.5% figure is very clearly bullshit.
The mainland US covers 3,119,885 mi2. 5.5% of that are
3,119,885 mi2 * 0.055 =~ 171,593 mi2.
There are a bit less than 300 million motor vehicles in the US, but let's use that number to highball (note: that would include Alaska and Hawaii while our area claculation does not).
That makes for
171,593 mi2 / 300,000,000 =~ 0.000572 mi2 =~ 15,946 ft2
of parking lot per vehicle in the US.
A large pickup truck might be 20ft long and 7ft for a total of 140 ft2.
Let's say we need parking space just over 4 times that size per vehicle, so 500 ft2.
That would mean there were enough parking lots to park every US vehicle
15,946 ft2 / 500 ft2 =~ 32 times.
And that is, without a doubt, bullshit.
Especially considering that we're ignoring parking space on the side of roads and individual parking spots on people's private property.
So where the heck does this number come from?
I'm guessing it's this article which states:
In all, the model estimates that about 5.5% of all U.S. land was covered by parking lots in 2012
Huh. But then, under a picture it has the following:
About 5.5% of developed land in the lower 48 U.S. states is covered by impervious parking lots [...]
They conflate "all U.S. land" with "developed land in the lower 48 U.S. states". That's two very different things.
So what does the actual study say? At least they link to it (might take a while to load) which is more than most such articles do.
But looking at the brief summary, there is no mention of 5.5%. Some other, more specific figures, but no overall value for all developed land or even all land. It does clarify that they're only going for the conterminous 48 states, though.
So let's dig deeper. The first linked file has their metadata which also summarizes all their findings. Still no 5.5% though.
What is in there, is this snippet:
This was 5.46%, compared to the true parking areas in the validation areas, which was 5.49%.
That's the only source of a 5.5%-ish figure in there.
So what's the context? Well, this is under the section "Process Description". Notice the term "validation areas"? Those are the areas they ran their automated measuring tool (classifying parking lots from satellite data) on for which they had actual data, so that they could compare and ensure that their tool provides good results.
What was that validation data? It's listed as the following:
Bloomington, Indiana; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Denver, Colorado; Hartford, Connecticut; Wake County, North Carolina (city of Raleigh), and Ramsey County, Minnesota (St Paul)
So, 6 cities. That's where the 5.5% comes from. These 6 cities are 5.5% parking lots.
Nothing else. The study does not give a total for the entire US (or 48 states). It doesn't give a total for all "developed land" either. It has sub-categories of this with data but without knowledge of their proportion to each other, we can't derive an overall value here.
Whoever wrote that article, do better.
But sure, let's cover 5.5% of the mainland US in solar panels.
That's 171,593 mi2 as we calculated earlier.
Solar panels might average around 6 kwh per square metre per day.
171,593 mi2 =~ 4.4443 * 1011 m2.
4.4443 * 1011 m2 * 6 kwh/(m2*day) = 2.66658 * 1012 kwh/day.
The US uses about 3.8 * 1012 kwh/day. So we could cover a solid 70% of that with our solar panels."
Monday 4 years ago
Math-person was basically say that Graham didn't actually read the article he was quoting and that the 5.5% thing was wrong. He then went on to tear the whole article apart because it was awful and contained a lot of inaccurate information. But then Math-person went on to calculate what covering 5.5% of the US mainland in solar panels would accomplish, and found out it could supply 70% of the US's energy requirements.
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Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
So much fixated on BS number that forgot the main proposition: Hey, US has a lot iof parking lots, let's make them usefull rather than keep them as cement blob!
#32
So About How Many Extra Nuggets Would That Be?
"Let's assume that this is part time worker. We can't say for certain how many hours they would get in a given week, so we will assume that they work 20 hours per week.
It was stated that they worked at McDonald's for 2.5 years. With 52 weeks per year, this would give us a total of 130 weeks (52 x 2.5 = 130).
At 20 hours per week, for 130 weeks, we have a total of 2,600 hours worked (20 x 130 = 2,600).
The remaining variable is how many orders of 10 piece nuggets occur each hour. Each order represents 1 free nugget. There are many factors which determine how many orders there are per hour:
-The number of 10 piece nuggets ordered would be higher during peak dining hours, and lower during off peak hours.
-Nuggets aren't served during breakfast hours.
-Location would have a major impact on this number. We would expect a location in a densely populated area to have lots of customers (and therefore more orders of 10 pice nuggets each hour). We could assume that a store in a more remote location would experience a smaller number of customers.
For simplicity, let's assume that there are 10 orders of 10 piece nuggets per hour.
With the assumptions above, we have the employee working for 2,600 hours, giving away 10 free nuggets in each of those hours.
2,600 hours x 10 free nuggets per hour = 26,000 free nuggets"
Natalie KS 4 years ago
Far less than the company purposely throws in the trash every day.
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Reisha's Music 4 years ago
What exactly is wrong with you did someone give you just 9 chicken nuggets
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#33
Just Saw This Meme And It Seems Wildly Out Of Proportion. Can Someone Confirm Or Give Me A More Accurate Number To Share With My Buddies?
"Golf courses are between 5000-7000+m long on average on the card plus extra walking and the fact that unless you are pro you arent going in a straight line the whole time you can do nearly the same again.
Assuming 6 mile (9.6km) walked per round, 1 round per week minus 2 for holidays that would give 50*6 or 300 miles.
Assuming one has a pint at the end of each round, that would give 50 pints or 6.25 gallons
My math says that that equals 48mpg
So the numbers look like they are assuming 3 rounds a week but the ratio is there or there abouts"
Pungent Sauce 4 years ago
A pint at the end? What about the 12-12oz cans consumed over the 18 holes?
#34
How Long Till The Average Person Farts 500k Times
"The average person farts between 5-15 times a day, using the median (10) it would take 50000 days to fart 500k times. This is 136.9863 years."
Sharrow 4 years ago
So are you saying that people sit in this chair just to fart? :D
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Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
This person is apparently well above average, or it's a family heirloom
Monday 4 years ago
It must be the mythical farting chair where everyone goes to rid themselves of unwanted gas.
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Robert Beveridge 4 years ago
You can very easily make yourself a non-average person by, say, REALLY liking sauerkraut, though.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
It's meant to say "over 50 ok farts..." That is easily doable. I'd be interested in what they consider to be not an ok fart though. That might be what caused the damage.
#35
How Long Could An Average Car Stay On Before Running Out Of Gas?
"The average car is a Toyota Corolla which has a gas tank big enough to hold 13.2 gallons of gas. An average car uses about 1/5 of a gallon of gas an hour if you let it idle. 13.2÷.2 is 66. So about 66 hours in a full tank. I did a whole 5 minutes of research on this and I don't know if I used the right equation so I may be wrong"
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
Nope. There are many cars with push button starters now. I jsut recently got one and I've forgotten to turn off the car, and taken my keys with me into the house. I was surprised to find the car still on when I went out again two hours later.
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ButterScot 4 years ago
People do this sort of thing all the time in northern Alaska in the winter. Keeps your car from freezing.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Their are places in the world where if you turn your engine off for more than a minute or two, the fluids will freeze and you can't start it again so you leave it running all night. Not many people live in these places though, for obvious reasons.
Karen Fox 4 years ago
I personally left my 2010 Honda CRV running for approximately 14 hours last year. I had a fairly full tank of gas when I parked (& covid brain fog so I totally spaced that I had left it idling!) When my neighbor brought it to my attention the next morning it had just under half a tank. I actually do live in town, it is small and although I never lock either my vehicle nor my house I WAS SURPRISED THAT IT WAS STILL THERE IN THE MORNING!
Joann Casey 4 years ago
I did this by accident in my electric car, (Kia eNiro) you can hardly hear the engine and its push-button start and stop, it was running for about 2 hours, I lost zero miles on my battery, I noticed because I looked out of the window and the mirrors were not folded in so it was not locked. I couldn't understand why it would not lock until I saw I had left it on. I wonder how long it would take to empty the battery, a clever person here should be able to work that out.
#36
Is That True?
"Right off the bat, I can say that the sucker would have to be pure U-235, which would mean 141.85 times that amount of U-238 would also be produced, which would need to be extracted from ore and enriched and a whole bunch of other processes. And that U-238 is slightly radioactive too, so while you might only have a Dum Dum’s worth of fission biproducts, you’d have a lot of slightly radioactive U-238, as well as the ore waste.
Mathwise, we got: Energy yield, approximated: 82 TJ/kg Uranium-235 (https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/introduction/physics-of-nuclear-energy.aspx)
Density of Uranium: 19 g / cm3 (https://www.energy.gov/ne/fuel-cycle-technologies/uranium-management-and-policy/nuclear-fuel-facts-uranium)
Percent of U-235 in Uranium metal: .7% (Same as two above)
Volume of a Dum Dum: ~.06545 in ^ 3 or 1.072 cm3
Mass of Uranium of Dum Dum size: 20.37 grams
Mass of U-235 in sample: .142 grams
Energy released by .142 grams U-235: 11.70 GJ
Avg American’s energy consumption yearly: 10,909 kWh = 39,272,400,000 joules (about 39 Gigajoules)
Conclusion: the Uranium Dum Dum would only supply the average American with a little under four year’s worth of power, assuming my numbers are correct (it’s 3:57 in the morning and I don’t know why I’m even doing this to myself so links be damned). If the Uranium Dum Dum was, however, fully U-235, we’d no longer have a mere Uranium Dum Dum, but a Nuclear Dum Dum. And that Nuclear Dum Dum would give off approximately 1.67 Terrajoules of energy, which when divided by 39 GJ per year you get 42.82 (I feel like I may have missed a 2 here but again, 4:02 in the morning).
So, the first part might be correct if (I missed a two or my numbers are wrong) AND (the Dum Dum is 100% U-235). The second part is flat out wrong because it ignores the rest of the waste of the process to get that Uranium. The third part, I can’t be asked because 4:06, but seems like with those numbers it’s probably legit. I’ll leave that to somebody else instead.
Use Thorium instead. It’s cleaner and plays nicer. But I’m not running the numbers for again. These numbers might be wrong so please check peoples. : ) I’m going to bed for now."
#37
What Are The Odds Of This Happening?
"Assuming the question is really what are the odds of buying 2 successful tickets in a row.
That's going to be determined by the odds of those two prizes.
Let's assume a 1 in 60,000 chance for the car and a 1 in 600,000 chance for the jackpot. Which seems reasonable enough based off these odds. I've assumed a $10 ticket for the jackpot (which matches the top prize) and because it was a re-enactment I'm going to assume the first ticket that won a car was also $10 meaning it was not top prize, hence the better odds (assumed roughly proportionate to the prize value).
The probability is then 1/60000 x 1/600000 = 1/(6x104 x 6x105) = 1/(3.6 x 1010) or 1 in 36 billion."
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
I mean, he was dead. I would be tired too lol
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#38
What Speed Could A Sleigh Reach Going Down This Ramp? Would It Go Airborne?
"There appears to be 37 steps in the image, and if we assume that the ramp goes the whole way up, we can guess the height of the ramp to be:
37 * avg step height = 37 * 7.5 inches = 23 ft 1.5 inches = 7.05 meters
The change in slope happens 20 steps up, or about 12.5 ft = 3.81 meters. Let's assume this changes from 30 degrees to 45 degrees.
There's a short answer where the speed is just energy conservation:
v = sqrt(2 * g*h) = sqrt(2 * 9.81*7.05) = 11.76 m/s = 42.3 km/h = 26.5 mph
At the slope change, the speed is 8.00 m/s or 28.8 km/h or 18.0 mph, which is definitely fast enough to leave the ramp.
We could include air resistance and friction, but at these speeds, they don't change much:
Here's the force balance:
F_horizontal = m*g * sin(angle) - m*g * cos(angle) * mu_rolling - 0.5 * air_dens * v^2 * A * C_D
According to this paper, wheelchairs with air-filled wheels have a rolling resistance roughly on the order of 1% of the load against the surface. This means we're looking at about 1% loss from friction, which is negligible.
This 70's NASA report, we can place a drag coefficient of 1.4 to the person and a frontal area 0.465 m^2 for air resistance. If we assume a total man + wheelchair mass of about 100 kg and an air density of about 1.1 kg/m^3 (I'm guessing this is some kind of foresty area with about 1000 m above sea level), we can estimate air resistance at any speed.
If we were to use our fastest 11.76 m/s theoretical speed, the air drag works out to about 50 Newtons of force. Compare that to almost 700 N of force from just gravity along the ramp at 45 degrees, it's pretty small. At the midway point, drag would only be about 23 Newtons compared to about 500 Newtons from gravity at 30 degree slope, staying under 5% over the first half and under about 7% for the second half.
This means we have maybe around a 5% drop in force the whole way on average or so, which is equivalent to 5% drop in energy. However, since kinetic energy is v^2, this corresponds to sqrt(100% - 5%) = 97.5% or only a 2.5% drop. So by the end, we'd probably see speeds around 25.8 mph instead of 26.5 mph.
Hope this was interesting"
#39
How Much Would The Eurotunnel Have Cost If It Were Built On The Seabed And Had A Glass Roof Like This Post?
"Well,
The euro tunnels under water sections is around 37km. That’s around $560,000/m. The glass needed is about $10,000/m without instalment costs. Labour in France is about $0.50 less than the UK for this job but I’ll just average out at about $20 per hour at about 20 metres per day or five years for the whole tunnel.
If there were 1000 workers it would be about $20,000/hour. At 8 hours a day, 350 days a year for 5 years is 14,000 hours or $280,000,000 in labour costs.
If you add the cost for parts from before it makes around $21billion. I’ll assume it’s higher at around $30billion though. If you adjust for inflation it makes around $47billion."
Lily Lu 4 years ago
It would be too dark to see anything anyways, they could cover the entire real tunnel with black glass if they want to mess with the kids.
Cheri Aline Sydney 4 years ago
Guaranteed you still wouldn't have such a beautiful view... The cost to clean up the water would make the $47 billion look like pocket change....
#40
How Much Would A Whole Pizza Be Worth?
"Ok so we know that a pizza is round, and we have the radius of the pizza as well a a part of an arc.
To measure the radius, I straighted the pizza and found out that it was about 778 pixels long. With that, I calculated that the circumference of the pizza was 4488.32. The crust's length is 137.17, which is is 3.05% of the pizza.
If 3.05% of the pizza is worth 600$, then the whole pizza is 19672.13$."
#41
How Dense Would This Person Be? What Materials/Elements Would They Be Comparable To?
"So BMI is calculated as weight divided by the square of your height, e.g. 80kg / 1.8m2 = 24.69
In this case, we change the formula to yield the BMI:
28000 * (0.0622) = his weight being 107.63 kg.
Assuming he is a perfect cube with 6.2cm side length, that puts his volume at 6.23 cm = 238.33cm3.
Density is m/V, thus 450g/cm3
Osmium as the densest element at standard conditions is only 22.57g/cm3, putting him at about 20x that. If we go by a humanoid shape, it'd be even higher as he doesn't fill all the room in the "cube"."
#42
Is This True? And If So, How Did It Get This Way?
"Alright.
Currently it's $9,687 for public in-state college.
Nationally minimum wage is $7.25. I'll be ignoring that each state and certain municipalities have different minimum wages, because Bernie is a Federal senator, so he is arguing for the Federal Minimum Wage to be raised (or cost of college to be lower. Bernie's argued for both, but the point stands that he's in a Federal position, so I'm taking aggregates for all in-state tuitions and federal minimum wages.).
A 4-year program ($9,687 x 4 = 38,748) costs $38,748 USD.
Bernie says 4459 (hours) x 7.25 (wage) = $32,327.75 USD.
So, no 4,459 hours does not pay for even in-state tuition for four years. This data is actually too optimistic.
Bernie is off by 885 hours.
Now let's do the 1960s. In 1968, the cost was $329 per year.
$1.60 was the minimum wage for that year, but this was admittedly minimum wage at its peak value in American history.
306 x 1.60 = $489.60. This would have paid for about 1.5 years of college, not four. During the '70s and '80s, the purchasing power fell a bit during stagflation/inflation and fees/admin bloat rising. Let's say that now it would pay for about 1.33 years of college for the simple sake of rounding and me wanting to wrap up work on this unpaid little venture.
So, let's say that a boomer would have had to work closer to 918 hours, not 306 hours on minimum wage..
That is three times the number of hours Bernie's claiming a boomer needed to work to afford college for four years, but still FAR off from what today's people have to work to afford tuition, too. (Remember, Bernie actually had the Millennials' (Sigh...Zoomers') figures off, and was too optimistic. They don't have to work 4459 hours, they have to work more. I leave it to someone else to crunch the numbers to figure out how many more, I'm going back to writing my book.)
So, Bernie is broadly correct in that it takes a vastly greater number of hours on the same minimum wage that young people are often paid at, in order to pay off their college degrees. Bernie is also wrong in that it was not nearly so easy as Bernie says it was for Boomers. (I'm not taking any sides here, I'm just trying to math.)
One interesting insight from this, pointed out by /u/ravenhr, is that the amount that Bernie was off by for Millennials (Sigh...Zoomers)and I initially considered as practically a "rounding error" is by ~885 hours. Or almost what a Boomer would have had to have worked to afford all four years of college.
So, "Is Bernie's math right, according to this very superficial analysis?" No. Not even close.
But "Is Bernie's point valid?" Yeah, pretty much.
Caveats and disclaimers: This leaves out a lot. This is a very surface-level analysis.
Some examples: academic and athletic scholarships.
How far a degree gets you (whereas now people need a Masters or PhD to do what a Bachelor's once sufficed to accomplish in terms of conferring positions and a career), out of state tuition, private schools, what 'average minimum wage' is , (etc.,) as well as the fact that the average it takes someone to earn a 4 year degree is 5.1 years. (This isn't surprising because unless you are overloading your coursework, 4 is the minimum, and almost no one wants to overload just to get one degree. Most high achievers just elect to do a double major and stay in college for all four years.) Since Bernie specified "to pay for 4 years" we're going with "4 years" as our measurement. Just be aware that the extra year that it takes most people to get their degrees means that the situation's even worse in terms of debt, if the math has worsened (as it seems to have. This is how it scales.)
I've also seen some vagaries in the cost of public college- I'm not sure if some people are leaving certain fees off, or so on. I know we've left a lot of fees off (e.g., room/board, among others). This is just tuition (since that's the most consistent figure you'll get- room and board can be skipped if you elect to rent, for example, and then you need to take into account average rentals for people aged 18-21 in each college town. I don't have access to this kind of data, so I just went with "tuition alone.") I also accounted Boomers' college fees for tuition alone. I'm aware rent is considerably more expensive now, as well, but factoring for these was too difficult without reliable data, and grew the scope of the project beyond what I care about (without getting paid.)
This is a VERY surface-level examination of the issue.. I also can't say how he came up with his figures. It's possible he did do a lot of research and came up with it off national average minimum wages and then tallied those against their in-state tuitions for the Millennials (Sigh...Zoomers) figure. I'm pretty sure that the Boomer figure is off, though, given that I used 1968 (max purchasing power for minimum wage).
And I think that this is not counting Social Security, though you might be able to apply for Financial Aid assistance."
#43
So How Many Bees Per Sq. In To Get To 20k?
"Beekeeper here. No one counted them. 20,000-30,000 bees is the typical colony size of a healthy hive. Sometimes, particularly in late spring, Bees will decide to abandon the hive and 'swarm' to a new location. Which is sometimes a car, but is usually a tree branch"
#44
One Comment Said "This Is Equivalent To 22 Lattes Per Day Since Birth" Is That Accurate? Please Do The Math
"That would imply he's lived over a billion days. Not even remotely close.
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, that's 18,109 days ago.
34.67 billion lattes over 18,109 days are
34,670,000,000 / 18,109 =~ 1,914,518 lattes per day.
That's 34,670,000,000 / 18,109 / 24 / 60 / 60 =~ 22.16 lattes per second."
#45
Found This “Girls In A Group Photo” Meme. How Many Combinations Are There?
"The following ‘calculation’ is done by assuming that the position the girls are trying to form a | /// formation.
If 3 girls have the same side, that means one side (e.g. ) will be completely taken by those three girls. If we consider as 1 2 3, the number of combination possible is 6.
1 2 3, 1 3 2, 2 1 3....
Put that aside for now and let’s look at the remaining 4 position. All that is left are the | /// position open.
As 2 girls do not want to be in the middle, the only positions they can take are / / /. Assuming the two girls are named A and B. Assuming the last 2 girls who does not have any preference are named Y and Z.
That means the possible combinations are....
A B _ A _ B _ A B
Edit (thanks to luigi_itsa for pointing the missing combination below and made corrections for the calculation that follows):
BA_ B_A _BA
Fill Y and Z into each _ and you’ll get 12 possible combination for | ///.
Taking it all together, assuming each combination have 6 different | /// (I.e. 12 combinations as well)...
We get a total of 72 different possible combinations that are happy with the photo.
Bonus: if you want to include the possibility that the 3 girls that have the same side prefer the other side, then just multiply that combination by 2 which gives you 144 possible combination."
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
As soon as this was raised to be an issue, I would give the camera to someone else before I died of starvation.
#46
Can You Help Me Calculate This?
"(365x364x363x...x344)/(36523 ) = 0.51568 Which is about 50/50. This is the probability of unique birthdays, then you can just subtract from 1 to get your answer.
The probability the first person has a unique birthday is 1, the probability that a second person has a birthday that is different to the first person is 364/365, next person 363/365, and so on. Taking the product of these probabilities, and subtracting it from one will yield the result."
#47
How Long Before Humanity Is Wiped Out? And How Much Money Will Have Been Made At The End?
"Assuming 10 clicks per second and 7.88 billion people on earth. That would take 25 years.
At $10,000 per kill that would be $78,800,000,000,000.
That’s $78.8 trillion.
Of course if you could get an auto clicker to go at 100 times per second it would be 2.5 years. Or at 1,000 clicks per second it would take about 3 months. The amount of money wouldn’t really change as the number of clicks remains the same, just the time in which all clicks are completed is shorter.
This of course doesn’t take account of population growth. The world population is growing by approximately 2.7 people per second (births - deaths). So if the clicker was only 10 per second it would actually take longer than 25 years as at the start of clicking the net reduction would only be about 7.3 people per second. As the Population declines the number of new births will also decline, so the rate of net population decline would speed up. But that maths is too difficult for me to work out. At 100 or 1000 clicks per second the effect of births will be negligible so 2.5 years or 3 months is probably relatively accurate."
David carro 4 years ago
Nop, that is 78billion. 800 thousand million. join the world, stop using your own meassurement tables.
#48
How Many Of These Crabs Would It Actually Take To (Very Slowly) Run Doom?
"The lowest doom port that i would consider borderline playable is the port for the ti-83 plus.
The ti-83 plus features the zilog z80 as its main processor.
The zilog z80 has 8500 transistors.
You need a minimum of 2 transistors for the most basic logic gates.
So if you need 80 crabs per gate and we have 8500/2 gates, you require at least 340000 crabs to play a version of doom, albeit a very basic one."
#49
That‘S A Lot Of Spiders...
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
It's wrong anyway, it assumes spiders just walk into your mouth while you sleep, not a great passtime for them as a species.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Don't forget Spiderf*cker Jim, who animated Charlotte's Web. He "eats" 173 thousand spiders a year.
#50
Calculates The Ferrari 250 Gto Is Worth More Than Its Weight In Gold
#51
How Many People Would Be Autistic Today If That Number Was Correct?
"In the early 1980s, >95% of children were fully vaccinated prior to school entry. In 2019-2020, this had dropped to roughly 95% of children entering school being vaccinated.
Suppose we are idiots and ignore the following:
Autism as a diagnosis has undergone major changes over the decades,
People with autism were essentially rendered invisible prior to the 1980s because they were institutionalized
People are screened for autism now, instead of diagnoses happening only if a physician was familiar with the concept
Then we'd look at the change in autism rates from <1/1400 (above cite) in the 1980s to 1/54 today, and conclude that the drop in vaccination rates has occurred during a 2500%, not 30,000% increase in autism.
This is from 40 years ago, not 50, but the data before 1980 was so sparse and badly reported that there really is no point to trying to use it."
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Nah, that's just me. I'm beaming autism waves into your homes via Muslamic Ray Guns. Sue me.
Peter Korsten 4 years ago
So basically, there is a correlation between decreasing rates of vaccination, and increasing rates of autism diagnosis.
#52
What Are The Percentages Of People Dying To Covid Compared To People Dying Of The Vaccine?
"Looking at the official numbers there have been about 600k deaths out of 33.6 million COVID-19 cases. About 178 million people have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. Fot the risk to be the same there would have to be about 3 million deaths from the vaccine and even the most extreme people are saying 5k, which is a severe over count."
#53
How Many Shares Would Actually Be Required To Make This Much Money?
"Mayweather claims there's $1.8m on the table.
Buying at $1.04 and selling at $1.06 is a profit of $0.02 a share.
$1800000 / $0.02/share = 90 million shares.
Ignoring fees and taxes, of course."
#54
Is This True? And If It Is True, Without Considering Side Expenses, What Will Be The Cost Of Actually Building It? Found This And Tough It Was Interesting But Couldn't Find Verification. It Is A Problem Requiring A Lot Of Information ( I Think) And I Am Not Sure How To Tackle It
"i mean 1.2% of 3,552,000 is roughly 43,000 square miles.
jesus christ imagine how big that solar farm would be.
it is equivalent to literally covering an area the size of the entire state of Virginia..."
Katinka Min 4 years ago
And how would the electricity get to the rest of the world?? Just put solare panels on every damn roof, install a s**t-tons of storage solutions and we'll be fine. Unfortunately, especially the latter is still a real problem.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)
For one thing it would need cooling and processing, which would require water, one thing that a desert lacks.
DC 4 years ago
Well, there could be further transformations to make it more transportable and usable. Not everything runs on electricity ... making combustibles in the desert, from energy harvested from the sun and algae would, basically, allow the cripplingly poor countries the Sahara is on to push OPEC out of business. Climate neutral.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
It would be interesting to count the cost of the reflected sunlight vs. the shade created below the panels and how that would affect things too
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
It would also be pretty difficult getting some of that energy across the Atlantic to power all the Americas.
#55
I Don't Believe Facebook Memes, So I Came To You!
"I think it’s a bit unbalanced to only be accounting for O2 . Some people produce more CO2 than others. To look at O2 only, is just offsetting O2 consumption. We want trees that would be good carbon sinks right? To balance the CO2 would be better. I’ll do some math during lunch. A while ago the US dropped some very large ordinance in Afghanistan and an article was published detailing how the weapon produced less CO2 than the people would have. We can improve this meme"
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Doing a Thanos would solve many of the world's problems in a year or so. Obviously not instantly, even if you assume it takes 24 hours to work to ensure people disappear in their sleep rather than while driving / flying / etc, there are still skill sets that would need to redeveloped, training to be done, jobs to be rearranged, perhaps even skills or languages lost forever...ok, forget the Thanos moment, I talked myself out of it
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Arthur Waite 4 years ago
I recommend 'Stand on Zanzibar' by John Brunner. The premise fits in this category very well.
Keerthi Vardhan 4 years ago
That's what the aliens were planning.. they knew that we're just a spit which is 1km wide at the end of evolution.
First Name Last Name 4 years ago
If covid vaccines actually prevented anyone from getting or giving covid, the numbers would have dropped dramatically. But they are remaining in a very typical cyclical rise and fall pattern like normal viruses do, because the "vaccines" are not actually vaccines. They do not affect the viral cells at all. All they do is boost your immune response to lessen the symptoms of covid when you get it. If they actually affected the viral cells in such a way as to decrease transmission it would be seen in the pattern of the number of people testing positive.
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
I recommend 'Stand on Zanzibar' by John Brunner. The premise fits in this category very well.
Keerthi Vardhan 4 years ago
That's what the aliens were planning.. they knew that we're just a spit which is 1km wide at the end of evolution.
First Name Last Name 4 years ago
If covid vaccines actually prevented anyone from getting or giving covid, the numbers would have dropped dramatically. But they are remaining in a very typical cyclical rise and fall pattern like normal viruses do, because the "vaccines" are not actually vaccines. They do not affect the viral cells at all. All they do is boost your immune response to lessen the symptoms of covid when you get it. If they actually affected the viral cells in such a way as to decrease transmission it would be seen in the pattern of the number of people testing positive.
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