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When my son was 5 or 6 I had a great discussion about salt containers - the little one you have on the table, the big packet in the pantry, the pallet that gets
by jgord 10y ago
When my son was 5 or 6 I had a great discussion about salt containers - the little one you have on the table, the big packet in the pantry, the pallet that gets delivered to the supermarket, the vast piles of salt at the salt mine, and all that salt in the ocean.
Next time we had an egg and he wanted salt I scratched my head and asked him what should we do .. take our egg to the supermarket or we could take a pack lunch to the beach, and maybe wave the egg around in the water ? "No daddy, remember, we have a little salt cache in the kitchen." hehe.
I guess a lot of the world can be seen thru the glasses of caching data or physical things.
- csours 10y agoThat's a beautiful analogy. I wonder if we would still use small salt shakers if they cost 1000x a large salt container. Edit: Cunningham's Law in action! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
- CyberDildonics 10y agoFor the amount of salt they contain I would guess that they do.
- zepolen 10y agoFrom 100x to 1250x container (40’) shaker payload: 27,600 kg 100g cost: 1000$ to 5000$ 2$ to 5% cost/kg: 0.04$ to 0.18$/kg $20/kg to $50/kg
- dghughes 10y agoFarming is similar $200/tonne of potatoes and one 25kg bag is $10. Quite a difference in what a farmer gets and what the end products costs although not as bad as salt.
- zepolen 10y agoWtf this isn't Cunningham's. I had the same thought and did the math and decided to post the results since other people were thinking the same thing.
- softwarefounder 10y agoamazing analogy
- Bluestrike2 10y agoMost physical analogies make me cringe (the security ones are the worst), but that one's perfect.