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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by spdionis on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:23AM (#24836957)
You have to realize, using miles to convey the "sense of scale" to non-Americans is ironic because... we can't be bothered to understand how much 10000 square "miles" actually is.
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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by treeman79 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:36AM (#24837107)
Swap miles for km. It’s about the same for arbitrary vastness.

Well under an order of magnitude off.

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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by ovi256 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#24837035)
For those with high school math ability, it's doable to notice that 10000 sqm is the area of a square with side 100 m, so about a patch of 160 km by 160 km.
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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by horsawlarway on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:48AM (#24837230)
If it helps, the London metro is ~3200 square miles, and has more than twice the population of Atlanta (14 million vs 6 million).

Paris is ~4600 square miles with 13 million pop.

Berlin's full metro is actually comparable. It's about 11,000 square miles, but it's also nearly 1/10th of ALL of Germany.

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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by AlchemistCamp on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:02AM (#24837381)
Not all non-Americans are daunted by the effort of making a single Google search.
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