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Imagine you received a wage that was 1/10 of what it should have been, you notified the appropriate department in the company, and they wondered why is your ped
by mjan22640 3y ago
Imagine you received a wage that was 1/10 of what it should have been, you notified the appropriate department in the company, and they wondered why is your pedanticism so strong when it is just one order of magnitude.
- tuatoru 3y agoIf my official wage was 10^12 dollars/euros/pounds sterling, I don't think I'd be worried, really. Even yuan or yen.
- ToValueFunfetti 3y agoIt's the difference between rich and poor in Venezuelan Bolivares (290k USD vs 29k)
- tuatoru 3y ago29K USD is still more than I make now.
- teekert 3y agoIn biology things mostly only get interesting on a logarithmic scale. It has to do with the fact that on/off is decided by concentrations. So I was a tad surprised for example that I had my drinking water tested for lead. It came back “clean” at 1.9 ug/L, a friend’s came back as “be careful, flush in the morning at 2.7. That does not make sense to me. Although of course a wage difference of 1.6x is pretty significant.
- kagakuninja 3y agoImagine learning that the estimated age of the universe was off by 1 order of magnitude. Astronomers will freak out; 99.9% of the world will shrug and get on with their lives, since the number is unimaginably huge and irrelevant to their lives.