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Can't recall where I saw it but someone created a visual comparison of volume / time (ie, throughput) of the Amazon River vs Amazon.com's delivery of physical g
by chrisweekly 8y ago
Can't recall where I saw it but someone created a visual comparison of volume / time (ie, throughput) of the Amazon River vs Amazon.com's delivery of physical goods. The river won by a lot, but they were on the same scale.
Edit: of course, it was xkcd:
https://www.xkcd.com/1165/ https://www.xkcd.com/1165/
- wccrawford 8y ago.9 vs 220,000 isn't really "on the same scale".
- chrisweekly 8y agoWell, a few orders of magnitude, anyway. It was more the notion that they were even conceivably comparable that stuck w/ me.