Posted Jun 11, 2013 by Ingrid Lunden (@ingridlunden) After months of speculation, the fate of Waze, the social-mapping-location-data startup, is finally decided: Google is buying the company, giving the search giant a social boost to its already-strong mapping and mobile businesses.
People don't blink when they're asleep. In a 24 hour day, most(?) people sleep for eight hours, so 15,360 would be a lot closer for an entire day. Also, anyone who uses a computer blinks a lot less than normal.
Here's how I came up with that figure: To count to 1 billion would take 999,999,999 seconds, because the timer would start as soon as the person says one, one second would have passed when the person says two, and so on. [Thanks to Jacques de Wet for this observation.] Now, there are 31557600 seconds in one year (seconds*minutes*hours*days).