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9 women can't make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months. More people can work on more/different
by starshadowx2 8y ago
9 women can't make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months.
More people can work on more/different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)
- commonsense1234 8y ago9 women cannot make 9 babies in 1 month nor 1 women can make 1 baby in 1 month. no concurrency in baby making for sure.
- gumby 8y agoThere is some potential concurrency: a woman can produce two or more babies in 9 months, although it is uncommon.
- commonsense1234 8y agothe process is not concurrent. it is still parallel.
- gumby 8y agoUnless the child processes have different fathers, which can and does occasionally happen.
- starshadowx2 8y agoLet's say you have a project with 9 parts. Each part will take ~9 months to complete. If you take 9 people and give them each one part it will take ~9 months to complete. If you take one person it will take ~81 months as they need to finish each part before they can go onto the next one.
- danso 8y agoSorry, but is there some kind evidence that Giannandeea is incabale of the strategy and logistics needed to manage multiple projects in parallel?
- smileysteve 8y agoSure, but then you try to make the children be playmates, and only 3 might work for a while, 1 might be a jerk that hurts the others; and 5 years down the road, you move anyway, so you only have 1 baby. ^ Sticking to the analogy when it comes to integrating into business; competing products, and which one actually maintains adoption. 9 babies in 9 months is basically what Google has done with its messaging apps.
- Dwolb 8y agoOff topic question: is there a word or phrase for this conversation? Something to describe arguing about the issue at hand completely through the metaphor and not directly referring to the issue at hand.
- luckydata 8y ago"Hackernewsing"
- gxs 8y agoThe word is pretty much analogy and counter analogy. See this wikipedia article that discusses it in the context of logic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy
- peterclary 8y agoDarmoking?
- todipa 8y agoThis example took a life of its own. Just wanted to clarify an irrelevant point to this discussion - Length of the pregnancy isn't 9 months. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777570/
- eecc 8y agoBut those 9 women don’t need to coordinate, each one will merrily go along with her task alone. So let’s keep the metaphor as used originally, it doesn’t extend further