• I Cast Fist
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    443 hours ago

    For those wondering how the hell the number got so stupidly large, starting somewhere in 2022:

    The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.

    By week 20 Google was already “owing” over 1 billion dollars and over 1 trillion by week 30. So expect the funny number to keep growing just because.

    In any case, I don’t think Google will come back to Russia anytime soon. Probably nothing to be gained there anyway.

  • lazynooblet
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    62 hours ago

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

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

    • @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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        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

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

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

    • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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      177 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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        146 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.

      • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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        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!

      • @MrNesser@lemmy.world
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        Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.

        It’s essentially an asset purchase

    • @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.

      • I Cast Fist
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        33 hours ago

        Sorry bud, best RL can do for ya is kinda ok-ish VR. At least you can rock an 80s punk-glam style!

    • @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!

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    Imagine Google just goes completely rampage mode and buys a fuck ton of drones and these Robot-Dogs with guns attached and lays fucking waste to Russia. This would be such an Deus ex machina to end this war.

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

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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.

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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.

          • @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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        129 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.

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