Things you just don't get

[patrickBOOTH]

I still don't get this virus thing. With all of the thousands of people who are being tested positive daily I still know nobody who has been tested. It is definitely a conspiracy of some sort.

 

[Numbernine]

There are 8 million stories in The Naked City

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Is that in NY?

 

[Numbernine]

Is that in NY?

The Naked City

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City,” as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film—and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-***-producer Mark Hellinger’s dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot on...

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[SixOhNine]

Interesting that 70 years later, NYC still has approximately eight million residents.

 

[HRoi]

So we know that there’s an extremely stable equilibrium point - only 8 million people in the world are willing to tolerate that level of misery

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Let's be fair. In 1970 it was like 7.8 today it is like 8.4. I guess it depends on what you mean by "approximately 8 million".

 

[patrickBOOTH]

This reminds me of when I was in elementary school. I was always poor at math and I thought on this one particular math test I would get credit if I just wrote "approximately" before my numeric answers I would still get credit. I didn't.

 

[Numbernine]

Ever think maybe some people have more than 1 story

 

[Numbernine]

This reminds me of when I was in elementary school. I was always poor at math and I thought on this one particular math test I would get credit if I just wrote "approximately" before my numeric answers I would still get credit. I didn't.

Best thing that ever happened to me was being poor at math. When I laid out piping sections to be fabricated in the shop I always triple checked my calcs because I knew I was prone to common math errors. Saved me from hardly ever returning a section to be cut up and rebuilt that had taken 100 man hours at $100 an hour to build the first time. Guys that were good at math were overconfident and made errors way more than they should have. That made the boss

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Too bad I'm poor at math and overconfident.

For me it is mostly mental math. I am always counting fingers. I work with some people who's brains are just incredible at that. Not me.

 

[Omega Male]

Ever think maybe some people have more than 1 story

No, but I hope I get a 2nd act.

 

[Numbernine]

Guys in the trades say " I cut that piece three time and it's still too fuckin' short"

 

[HRoi]

I’m pretty good at math except when it’s balancing a balance sheet. I have never suxcessfully balanced a balance sheet in my entire life. Thank goodness for partial credit

 

[SixOhNine]

Let's be fair. In 1970 it was like 7.8 today it is like 8.4. I guess it depends on what you mean by "approximately 8 million".

How about eight million, plus or minus five percent? That covers most of 1950-2020, aside from around 1980, when the population dropped to barely 7 million.