Originally published at: Skimping $4MM caused the Millennium Tower's increasing problems | Boing Boing
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“For want of a nail, a shoe was lost…”
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Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
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Cheaping out is the most expensive thing you can do.
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“Penny wise, pound foolish”
if we’re keeping with the aphorism theme for the thread
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More, “for a hap’porth of tar the ship was lost”.
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“A stitch in time saves nine.”
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They should count themselves lucky that the building isn’t in an earthquake-prone zone like San Francisco.
[handed memo by offscreen presence]
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What, a builder cutting corners? Next you’ll be telling me they’re sometimes late delivering on their promises.
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This whole things is just crying out for a HGTV style renovation show. The Good Bones ladies should tackle it.
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Although that pertains more to an already damaged item, so what they should’ve heeded is the old, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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ThE fOoTiNgS wOuLd Be UnDeRgRoUnD sO nO oNe WiLl EvEr KnOw
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What is $4MM? Four million million dollars (i.e. four billion) is a lot of money. Or is this hybrid roman numerals (M=1000, $4MM=$4 x 2000=$8000). Or do you mean a stack of dollars 4 millimeters thick?
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I also thought that format looked weird and although it’s less common than the $4M format that normal people use, the double-M format is apparently used a lot in accounting documents.
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If only there was some kind of notation to allow us to communicate numbers in a more scientific fashion…
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It’s a weird convention that means 4 thousand thousands, aka 4,000,000.
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He, and you, are correct in saying I am correct. He is just trying to make it sound wrong and for some reason you want it to be obscure.
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I do? News to me.
I do however, think it is a weird convention, and a bad one to use outside of accounting since an M can also mean million.
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It may not look like much, but it’ll do the kessel run in less than12 parsecs
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