[ExI] Facebook 2018 changes made users more divisive and angry

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Monday, October 4, 2021 2:25 PM
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> *Cc:* Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Facebook 2018 changes made users more divisive and
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> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:34 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>         what it is (USA)                what it shoulda been (everywhere)
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>         1e3     thousand        kilo
>         1e6     million         million
>         1e9     billion         giga
>         1e12    trillion        billion
>         1e15    quadrillion     peta
>         1e18    quintillion          trillion
>         1e21    sextillion      zetta
>         1e24    septillion      quadrillion
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> >…Why leave out mega, tera, et al?
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> People are too reluctant to use those terms for money
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Are you kidding?  I've lost count of the number of times I've seen
"megabuck" in some story about the near future, and any time it's defined
it's always 10^6 bucks.  Just last week I was talking to someone about
"tera(currency_name)".
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