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[{"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966059.4368229, "message": "if I disappear...", "group_id": 97, "id": 46417}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966033.8921721, "message": "i'll hasten that process: \"free tibet\"", "group_id": 97, "id": 46415}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965266.00301, "message": "Seriously. One day, someone is going to give you 10 millimeters of money and you're going to hate yourself.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46366}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [{"date_created": 1296971095.6946239, "user_id": 224}, {"date_created": 1297074415.4696319, "user_id": 544}], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965287.9819081, "message": "calling you out, @djchall", "group_id": 97, "id": 46367}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965288.6635079, "message": "cause we're accountants", "group_id": 97, "id": 46368}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965290.5263021, "message": "and roman", "group_id": 97, "id": 46369}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297074427.2754011, "user_id": 544}], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965365.9026389, "message": "I want 10 millimeters of money", "group_id": 97, "id": 46372}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965364.0949321, "message": "my theory is that because in roman numerals, M = 1000", "group_id": 97, "id": 46371}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965369.4970469, "message": "and a million is 1000x1000", "group_id": 97, "id": 46373}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965422.705992, "message": "@justinlilly much of our reality is defined by the romans", "group_id": 97, "id": 46375}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965432.9611859, "message": "examples?", "group_id": 97, "id": 46376}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965439.8570831, "message": "I'm recently interested in history.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46377}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965595.269599, "message": "@ericflo it's a convention.... as long as people understand it, it doesn't really need to be logical", "group_id": 97, "id": 46385}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965401.9138341, "message": "srsly? Roman empire ended in the 400's. You can let it go.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46374}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966042.8315179, "message": "the dalai lama is awesome", "group_id": 97, "id": 46416}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965443.837548, "message": "for example, the track gauge of most trains is based on the usual width of roman axels", "group_id": 97, "id": 46378}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1296965499.0720251, "user_id": 224}, {"date_created": 1296965644.2284689, "user_id": 7}, {"date_created": 1296978158.9910929, "user_id": 69}, {"date_created": 1297061394.4349971, "user_id": 19}], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965467.3924069, "message": "Yeah, forget about all that roman crap, let's go watch Superbowl XLV.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46379}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965535.2873111, "message": "Yeah, abbreviating million as MM kind of makes no sense", "group_id": 97, "id": 46382}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965550.821084, "message": "@ericflo what are they going to do in ten years, when it's Super Bowl L? that will look and sound weird", "group_id": 97, "id": 46383}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [{"date_created": 1296965693.8459401, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965673.0009141, "message": "no, I leave on Feb 21", "group_id": 97, "id": 46395}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965751.53526, "message": "I make it back in time for crabtacular and fgs though, so that's cool", "group_id": 97, "id": 46399}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965814.3863599, "message": "@bob woot", "group_id": 97, "id": 46400}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965886.0020549, "message": "This works pretty well, first time I've seen a live conversation", "group_id": 97, "id": 46402}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965918.0351591, "message": "BOOM ^", "group_id": 97, "id": 46406}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966130.820776, "message": "hah, the chinese president was at a friend of mine's school, I told him to wear a free tibet school, another guy did and was forced to take it off my security", "group_id": 97, "id": 46423}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965484.050437, "message": "MM is 2000 in roman numerals", "group_id": 97, "id": 46380}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965602.3273709, "message": "maybe they'll switch to chinese \u4e94\u5341", "group_id": 97, "id": 46386}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965911.560153, "message": "source: http://www.convertunits.com/forum/message/307/Re-What-does-the-abbreviation-MM-mean", "group_id": 97, "id": 46405}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965508.10361, "message": "just like II is 2", "group_id": 97, "id": 46381}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965900.1937611, "message": "@bob Thanks, I'm glad it works even across the Great Wall :)", "group_id": 97, "id": 46403}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1296966002.9968879, "user_id": 224}, {"date_created": 1297283185.2750649, "user_id": 1028}], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965905.5460441, "message": "\"in french M means mille, in spanish it is mil, both mean thousand. MM would be thousand thousand or 10 to 6th power in science. so MM is the abreviation for million and used in both scientific papaers and in financial reports\"", "group_id": 97, "id": 46404}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966212.6095009, "message": "Network looks different", "group_id": 97, "id": 46428}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966231.147661, "message": "yea. neat!", "group_id": 97, "id": 46429}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965613.5025189, "message": "I want to use computer terms.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46387}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965620.659446, "message": "That'll be one mega-dollar, sir.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46388}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965632.8387079, "message": "metric money", "group_id": 97, "id": 46390}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965634.639616, "message": "0x32", "group_id": 97, "id": 46391}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965650.598644, "message": "@bob Are you back from China yet BTW?", "group_id": 97, "id": 46393}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965663.4683051, "message": "\"not only are the trains running on time, they're running on metric time\"", "group_id": 97, "id": 46394}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965933.33079, "message": "Well, it works across the great wall for now", "group_id": 97, "id": 46407}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965963.486387, "message": "If you localized it to Chinese and made it open you'd probably be on the list sooner than later", "group_id": 97, "id": 46412}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296965998.5760951, "message": "@bob Yeah, we may be a lost cause in China", "group_id": 97, "id": 46414}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966085.823061, "message": "I think we lost him", "group_id": 97, "id": 46421}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966155.090132, "message": "it looks like Chrome's dev tools has changed recently, looks different", "group_id": 97, "id": 46424}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966177.811868, "message": "oh? what is new?", "group_id": 97, "id": 46425}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296966199.5942709, "message": "Resources is broken up into Frames, Databases, Local Storage, etc.", "group_id": 97, "id": 46426}, {"user_id": 69, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1296978373.0997031, "message": "@bob I noticed the crabtacular reference . . . have you been to past crabtaculars?", "group_id": 97, "id": 46532}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297074097.6937571, "message": "@ryannielsen yes, 2009", "group_id": 97, "id": 47553}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297074466.2732201, "message": "10 millimeters of money is about a dime. But, which way are we measuring? Base? Because a huge stack of dimes would still be worth something.", "group_id": 97, "id": 47576}, {"user_id": 69, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297077826.5960541, "message": "@bob nice! I was there that year, too... already looking forward to this year's", "group_id": 97, "id": 47659}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297078935.1865101, "message": "I missed both of the crabtaculars I was invited to :(", "group_id": 97, "id": 47662}, {"user_id": 507, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297096916.4817641, "message": "Doesn't look like anyone mentioned this, but foreigners use a slightly different notation for billions IIRC. Something like, they use a million millions instead of trillion, and don't use billions at all", "group_id": 97, "id": 47691}, {"user_id": 507, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297096986.1965029, "message": "See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales", "group_id": 97, "id": 47692}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297099825.269124, "message": "billions is confusing since in england, it's used to mean million million, not thousand million", "group_id": 97, "id": 47702}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297102521.4092579, "message": "@djchall whoa, that's crazy confusing", "group_id": 97, "id": 47766}, {"user_id": 507, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297103011.280597, "message": "hah", "group_id": 97, "id": 47800}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297102999.648746, "message": "yeah, it caused problems during WWI when the US was loaning England money", "group_id": 97, "id": 47798}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297103025.5794461, "message": "we gave them a thousand million, and they paid us back a million million", "group_id": 97, "id": 47803}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297105991.410326, "message": "inflation is a bitch.", "group_id": 97, "id": 47854}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297128003.065887, "message": "in China it's even more confusing because they use 10,000, so a million is 100 * 10,000", "group_id": 97, "id": 48560}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297128070.1273451, "message": "they have a word for 100,000,000 also (10k * 10k), which gets used", "group_id": 97, "id": 48561}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297128219.7684669, "message": "surprisingly the word for 100 million sounds just like the word for 1, but has a different tone", "group_id": 97, "id": 48562}, {"user_id": 32, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297146551.0893469, "message": "@bob, what's the word for 7k7k?", "group_id": 97, "id": 49098}, {"user_id": 222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1776, "date_created": 1297147290.699446, "message": "@emad it sounds like \"chee kay chee kay\", 7 in chinese is \u4e03 (q\u012b)", "group_id": 97, "id": 49132}]