• lazynooblet
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    174 hours ago

    They should start a payment plan. $5 per day.

    The current amount would be paid off by Saturday, April 11, 10951628027954030802047011389440

    • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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      63 hours ago

      So it’ll be paid off sometime between the last star dying and the first black hole evaporating.

      • JohnEdwa
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        Or just in the browser. Whatever app they are using is not following the same markdown as Lemmy, which supports only one level: 10^33^ = 1033.

    • @Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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      But not nearly as interesting seeing the big number. Also, who is that supposed to be clear to? The raised numbers are so small I can’t even read them on my phone.

      • babybus
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        It’s your phone! You can change the font size or your lemmy client if it renders these numbers incorrectly.

    • XIIIesq
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      Not really. Most people aren’t familiar with scientific or engineering notation. Writing £1,000,000, one million pounds or £1Million is a lot clearer than writing £1×10^6.

      My cars odometer says 91,584, not 91.584×10^3

      • @Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        Your examples are with small enough numbers that indeed it can also be written out. Now if you please, write out 7.45•10^16

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
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    To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow.

    Seems a bit suspect.

    • @leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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      54 hours ago

      this also puts in perspective how dystopian all of the “this person might be the world’s first trillionaire!!!” articles are

  • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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    66 hours ago

    So what does this mean for any existing business they do in Russia? I’m thinking mainly android / play store and things like YouTube?

    • @7dev7random7@suppo.fi
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      They stopped any business in Russia in 2022 acvording to the article.

      Guessing consumer products are still working though. Would like to know as well!

      And was there somebody representing Google in the court? I doubt it.

    • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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      1510 hours ago

      Oh this is even worse! Imagine if we transitioned to Nation Company states!? The United States of Apple…hey. We don’t gotta change anything…USA! USA!

      • @kautau@lemmy.world
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        129 hours ago

        There’s a reason why all the cyberpunk stories are about corporatacracies and/or spacefaring feudalist states running human society in the future. Life imitates art.

      • @MrNesser@lemmy.world
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        110 hours ago

        Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.

        It’s essentially an asset purchase

      • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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        110 hours ago

        I don’t see the problem, it will be just like the days of company towns, except way bigger, they will control the banks, hospitals, prisons and military, and you cannot leave unless they let you!

    • @runiq@feddit.org
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      No. I will not live in a Shadowrun campaign without the dragons and orcs to keep me company. Just no.

    • @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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      Thought this was Ludacris so I googled the Russian gdp and google networth and yeah google could legitimately bye Russia with some change.

      • Destide
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        They need Nuclear power plants and think of the passive cooling of a Siberian data=centre!

    • Suzune
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      Exactly. I’m still missing the comical “or else…”.

  • @foggy@lemmy.world
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    Lmao

    That’s… More than all of the value of everything on earth, combined.

    By a lot.

    • @Artyom@lemm.ee
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      They were smart and accounted for 6 months or so of Russian inflation as their currency collapses.

      • @foggy@lemmy.world
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        N = { value of everything in the Earth’s crust, including art, wildly inflated for tax purposes }

        N^2 < [(this fine)/(the U.S. GDP)]

        This number is so comically large it only makes sense in astrophysics.

        • @meco03211@lemmy.world
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          Miss me with that astrophysics ish. Come holla when you on that Ramsey theory and Graham’s Number.

          • @foggy@lemmy.world
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            rips bong

            We are the projection of a higher order dimension, being sucked into a higher order dimension black hole.

            We passed the event horizon which gave all static mass a direction of motion from which they cannot escape.This is the arrow of time.

            It wasn’t everything all at one point for the big bang, it was just the tip of a higher order dimension iceberg. This 0-100 moment is what caused the CMB.

            All of this information is being compressed. The universe is not expanding. The only thing that expands is the nothingness between all massive objects as they further compress towards nothingness, giving the illusion of infinite accelerating expansion.

            All invisible forces, from the 'dark matter’s to electromagnetism, are dimensions projected into this Allegory of the cave of a universe we’re stuck in.

            Miss me with that real shit let’s get high and make shit up.

      • @foggy@lemmy.world
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        1212 hours ago

        No, it literally does not.

        That’s how ridiculous that number is.

        Convert to Shiba Inu, Dodgcoin, idc. Still not even fucking close.

        • PlzGivHugs
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          The the infamous Weimar Republic mark was only one 4.2 trillionth of a dollar. This is a quadrillion x quadrillion dollars.

  • Dr. Moose
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    3312 hours ago

    considering the track record they should start putting “courts” in quotes when discussing Russia.

  • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    8414 hours ago

    Lol it’s not an onion article!
    How do you do this as a country and think anyone will respect anything you threaten again?

    • @slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      Like seriously, how would google pay more money than the world has? At least pretend to be serious, and fine them for a few billions only

  • @AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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    15215 hours ago

    You owe the Russian government $20 that’s you’re problem. You owe the Russian government $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s their problem.