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And they don't cost $40+mm
by lazypenguin 11y ago
And they don't cost $40+mm
- Thriptic 11y agoAnd you can eat them in times of scarcity. The robotic ones aren't nearly as tasty.
- hellofunk 11y agoSpeak for yourself. Diets motivated by iron deficiency are a real thing.
- OldSchoolJohnny 11y agoAlthough in modern times it's almost ridiculously hard to avoid added iron in food these days due to enforced fortification based on outdated ideas from the 1940's.
- mapt 11y agoper http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/a-host-of-ills-when-irons-out-of-balance/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/a-host-of-ills-when... , iron deficiency prevalence is 3% and iron excess intake prevalence is 12%.
- cetacea 11y ago> $40+mm 40 million million dollars?
- neiled 11y agohttp://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand...
- cetacea 11y agoI think most other people use a single M to mean million, and k for thousand. Can't we just use SI prefixes or spell the numbers out instead of using some random alternate convention?
- greglindahl 11y agoThis is not a "random alternate convention", it's a highly used convention that you aren't familiar with. I wasn't familiar with it, either, until I moved to the Silicon Valley. Now I see it all the time.
- wavefunction 11y agoIt's a ridiculous "convention" and it's dubious what you mean by "highly used." Using Roman numerals for anything is a waste of everyone's time.
- nitrogen 11y agoI don't think it's necessarily actually Roman numerals, but perhaps "mille", which means thousand. So thousand thousand means million.
- jonathankoren 11y agoI strongly suspect that the page's etymology is wrong -- or more precisely -- not entirely correct. The Latin word for "thousand" is mille, which why the numeral for a thousand is M. No one would be so asinine to mix numeral systems. Same thing with percent, which originally was rendered as "per-cent", as in "per hundred".
- jcrawfordor 11y agoThere exists a world of finance outside of Silicon Valley. M and MM to indicate thousands and millions are a finance convention, not an SV one, people in SV just happen to talk about finance a lot. Anyone in finance would be familiar with it, and given that the amount here is a dollar amount, the use seems perfectly fair.
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