Walking like Egyptian (Cheops on my mind)
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DrABELL wrote:
1. YouTube TOP-100[^]
and not one single cat video within the top 100! Seriously! What is the internet coming to!?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Reminds me of; King Tut[^] - Steve Martin
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site. I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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O, Joy of SQL! Ran query to get total hours 'People of the Web' spent watching just TOP-100 most popular YouTube Videos [1], got approx. 4.1 Billion man-hours. To put in perspective: it took 20 years and 100,000 workers to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu, (a.k.a. Cheops Pyramid - re: Herodotus). Assuming average 2,080 hrs/yr results in labor estimate of approx 20 x 100k x 2,080 = 4.16 billion man-hours. So, using this as a unit of labor, watching YouTube-100 equals “1 Cheops”. Kinda philosophical Q: how we will be remembered 3 kilo-years from now? :-D References 1. YouTube TOP-100[^] 2. Walk Like an Egyptian | The Bangles[^]
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Good point about present generation. Although the total estimate is not absolutely correct, I'd say. YouTube measures video stats in 'views', it does not mean that you view full video though. For good old Gangnam Style on the top, I stopped this shit after 10 seconds, certainly didn't waste 4:13 of time, and hopefully I'm not the only one doing so. So hopefully we wasted only half Cheops Pyramid on average :-D
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Good point about present generation. Although the total estimate is not absolutely correct, I'd say. YouTube measures video stats in 'views', it does not mean that you view full video though. For good old Gangnam Style on the top, I stopped this shit after 10 seconds, certainly didn't waste 4:13 of time, and hopefully I'm not the only one doing so. So hopefully we wasted only half Cheops Pyramid on average :-D
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
That's true, but keep in mind that some other folks may have been viewing it a dozen times and still counted like one view per person, so it's just an estimate. Btw, take a look at "approval ratio" for this item (88%), which is not that bad vs Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (2nd one) with that ratio of 39%, i.e. the most unpopular item in entire top-100. :-D
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O, Joy of SQL! Ran query to get total hours 'People of the Web' spent watching just TOP-100 most popular YouTube Videos [1], got approx. 4.1 Billion man-hours. To put in perspective: it took 20 years and 100,000 workers to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu, (a.k.a. Cheops Pyramid - re: Herodotus). Assuming average 2,080 hrs/yr results in labor estimate of approx 20 x 100k x 2,080 = 4.16 billion man-hours. So, using this as a unit of labor, watching YouTube-100 equals “1 Cheops”. Kinda philosophical Q: how we will be remembered 3 kilo-years from now? :-D References 1. YouTube TOP-100[^] 2. Walk Like an Egyptian | The Bangles[^]
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Not to be picky, but I would guess it would be more like 3,600 hours per year. (slave labor you know) :-D
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Not to be picky, but I would guess it would be more like 3,600 hours per year. (slave labor you know) :-D
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Not to be picky, but I would guess it would be more like 3,600 hours per year. (slave labor you know) :-D
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
Actually not slave labor for the pyramids. More of a seasonal public works project when the Nile was flooded and guys were standing around with nothing to do. We also know they were paid in beer, and were fed lots of beef. The logistics of transporting so many cows and brewing that much beer daily is a more impressive feat than the stonework. I'm not sure how many holidays they had in the Old Kingdom, but we know of 500+ holidays, some of which went on for 10 days. "Day of Chewing Onions for Bast" and "Day of Chewing Cucumbers for Sekhmet" are a couple of the more unusual ones.
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O, Joy of SQL! Ran query to get total hours 'People of the Web' spent watching just TOP-100 most popular YouTube Videos [1], got approx. 4.1 Billion man-hours. To put in perspective: it took 20 years and 100,000 workers to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu, (a.k.a. Cheops Pyramid - re: Herodotus). Assuming average 2,080 hrs/yr results in labor estimate of approx 20 x 100k x 2,080 = 4.16 billion man-hours. So, using this as a unit of labor, watching YouTube-100 equals “1 Cheops”. Kinda philosophical Q: how we will be remembered 3 kilo-years from now? :-D References 1. YouTube TOP-100[^] 2. Walk Like an Egyptian | The Bangles[^]
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Of course, this doesn't state how many whips it took to build that pyramid... or how many it would take to get me to watch YouTube continuously...
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Actually not slave labor for the pyramids. More of a seasonal public works project when the Nile was flooded and guys were standing around with nothing to do. We also know they were paid in beer, and were fed lots of beef. The logistics of transporting so many cows and brewing that much beer daily is a more impressive feat than the stonework. I'm not sure how many holidays they had in the Old Kingdom, but we know of 500+ holidays, some of which went on for 10 days. "Day of Chewing Onions for Bast" and "Day of Chewing Cucumbers for Sekhmet" are a couple of the more unusual ones.
Okay 500 holidays means double time. :laugh:
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Actually not slave labor for the pyramids. More of a seasonal public works project when the Nile was flooded and guys were standing around with nothing to do. We also know they were paid in beer, and were fed lots of beef. The logistics of transporting so many cows and brewing that much beer daily is a more impressive feat than the stonework. I'm not sure how many holidays they had in the Old Kingdom, but we know of 500+ holidays, some of which went on for 10 days. "Day of Chewing Onions for Bast" and "Day of Chewing Cucumbers for Sekhmet" are a couple of the more unusual ones.
On a serious note, I would agree with Paul: there has been some interesting research on this issue w/conclusion that it was not all slave labor, but to the contrary, kinda highly-qualified workers for their time... On a separate (non-serious) note: 500+ paid Holidays??? Das ist fantastisch! :-D )
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