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How to Develop a Sense of Scale
- mattmaroon 19y ago"Bill Gates earned over $3000 per minute [$50/second] since Microsoft was created. Spending 5 seconds to pick $100 off the floor is literally not a good use of his time." How does it take 5 seconds to pick a bill up off the floor? Also, most of his money was made via stock appreciation, so it's not as if he stops earning when he bends over to pick up a benjy.
- kalid 19y agoYeah, I threw that note in just because that type of comment is fairly popular. But the time depends on whether he's sitting, standing, how far away the bill is, impact of context switch, etc. And yep, it's not like he can't pick up money and think at the same time :).
- noonespecial 19y agoThen again, its a good argument for why "first class" on airliners is acceptable (socially). If Bill had to sit in coach and eat that food for 16 hours, he might make a bad choice the next day that could quite literally effect the economy. He eats bad ham, we get vista! :)
- Tichy 19y agoI wonder how they created pictures of earth from a million light years away? Are those fantasy pics, or, if they rendered them via computer, did they really have all the data for all the stars?