In contrast, on a whim at OkCupid, if we wanted to know whether our users had ever done thing X with a Y on hand while thinking about Z, we could get a few hundred thousand answers in a couple days.
While many remember the failed blow-out preventer and bad judgement all-around, a sloppy cement job in the Macondo Well, meant to save a couple of days and a few hundred thousand dollars, failed.
"Seriously, I hope that you're not disappointed that there won't be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met, " she continued.
Fitocracy started off with only a few thousand users during its beta testing days in 2011.
What Gordon Moore observed back in the mid-1960s was that each generation of memory chips (in those days they could store a few thousand bits, compared to a few billion today), which appeared about every 18 months, had twice the storage capacity of the generation before.
It's because in the old days, which was three or four years ago, not a thousand years ago, the video stores, namely Blockbuster, bought their videos depending on how many people came on an opening weekend.
Some misty-eyed commentators hark back to the honest days of the 1970s, when the revelation that his wife held a few thousand dollars in a then-illegal overseas bank account was enough to make the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, resign.
They seem more approachable than in days bygone, even if we are merely one of thirty-thousand, following a brand.
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At six shows an hour, five hours a day, five days a week, forty weeks a year, that works out to at least eighty-one thousand pockets picked.
One thousand five hundred people died when the Belfast built ship sank after striking an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean a few days later.
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