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I also didn't quite get the point of the article, but I clicked on it because I expected to learn some insight about something related to the number of minutes in a day.

Like, what I learned in engineering, that there are 86,400 seconds a day and you can use 100,000 instead for estimation. E.g. when you have around 10 requests per second in a web service, each taking 1KB, then the traffic the web service generates a day is 1GB (== 10 * 100,000 * 1,000).

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Apologies for the confusion, although it was intentional. Let me explain: Yes, you are right, 1,440 is indeed the number of minutes in a day which is not a widely known fact (outside this website that it). People always use what they know (i.e. hours) to describe their lives and not surprisingly get to similar, predictable results. Proving this point, you expected the post to be on a familiar subject so you quickly rejected it because it wasn't. But that is the main premise of the post: when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And to be true to the subject, I deliberately made the post short because I didn't want readers to invest more than one minute.(7 or 11 sentences to quote the other reader). Thanks for the comments!

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