• LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    Lol, such weak minded pussies, let me explain. For reference, that number is very roughly half of all atoms on earth. If you had that kind of money in cash, it would be larger than earth, it would be heavier than the sun and fucking obliterate our solar system. It’s absolute lunacy, so they could have gone further and got more out of it. Like asking for a googol dollars (a 1 with a hundred zeros), not only is it actually funny (a play on Google’s name), but that would finally be enough to nuke the entire observable universe. But no, turns out fascists aren’t creative and their statements are just the result of rabies.

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    I just feel bad for the IT guy that has to desperately make a computer system that hasn’t been funded since the invention of computers handle this bullshit math and giant numbers.

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      It’s a simple function, you don’t really need a whole lot of computing power to keep on track. Worst case you can simply remove the factorial and store the zeros in a separate array and tack them on in the output.

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        It depends on how they are representing the numbers. If they are stored as an “integer” they will overflow and wrap around after about 2 trillion. I’m not saying computers can’t handle larger numbers, I’m saying that in my extensive experience there’s always some part of older systems that generate some long-forgotten but essential report that never thought about handling huge numbers and breaks in unexpected ways.

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    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.

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      Google Russia filed for bankruptcy last year, and Alphabet filed a claim against whatever Russian ministry is in charge for wrongful asset seizure in a US court to prevent any filings against them in the US. So nothing will ever come out of it.

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    It’s no surprise there aren’t any good standup comics in Russia.

    The best comic relief they have is running the country lmao

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      there aren’t any good standup comics in Russia

      I literally don’t believe this. I do believe that you won’t read about them on the open internet though. The human condition is universal, and includes humor. It’s dangerous to “other” the entire population of a country.

      Also, as you point out, Ivan Standupkov doesn’t even have to be particularly good because the material that surrounds him practically writes itself.

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        There are plenty, and they aren’t exactly hiding either. All they need to make sure is avoid overly political jokes. You haven’t heard of them because their content is entirely in Russian.

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

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

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

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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.

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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

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    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.

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    Lmao

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

    By a lot.

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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.

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          Miss me with that astrophysics ish. Come holla when you on that Ramsey theory and Graham’s Number.

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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.

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        No, it literally does not.

        That’s how ridiculous that number is.

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

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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.

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            It’s closer to quintillion x quintillion.

            Just like 6 orders of magnitude larger.

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      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!

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        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.

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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!

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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

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

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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.

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