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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

www.theregister.com Russian court fines Google $2 decillion

Don't hold your breath Putin

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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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News @lemmy.world Louisoix @lemm.ee 5mo ago

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

www.theregister.com /2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/

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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.
- that's you are problem
  
  your
  
  Yur
- Exactly. I'm still missing the comical "or else...".
Lmao

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

By a lot.
- They were smart and accounted for 6 months or so of Russian inflation as their currency collapses.
  
  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.
- Value is relative. My cat is worth way more than that.
  
  I would sell my cat for a bag of pretzels.
- I wouldn't give a quarter of Earth for that much. 😤
- Depends on the currency.
  
  No, it literally does not.
  
  That's how ridiculous that number is.
  
  Convert to Shiba Inu, Dodgcoin, idc. Still not even fucking close.
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.
- Doubling every week means an interest rate of almost 5 × 10¹⁷ %. That can barely offset the ruble's inflation.
- I thought some court clerk had fallen asleep writing out zeroes and that's what they'd ended up with.
- 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.
Lol it's not an onion article!
How do you do this as a country and think anyone will respect anything you threaten again?
- There's still a window you could "fall" out of...
- 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
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.
- this also puts in perspective how dystopian all of the "this person might be the world's first trillionaire!!!" articles are
- Seems a bit suspect.
  
  Typical for the Russian legal system
Google buys Russia
- 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!
  
  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.
  
  Neal Stephenson has entered the chat.
  
  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!
  
  Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.
  
  It's essentially an asset purchase
- That might be an improvement over Putin.
  
  30 second unskippable ad before an oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
- No. I will not live in a Shadowrun campaign without the dragons and orcs to keep me company. Just no.
  
  Sorry bud, best RL can do for ya is kinda ok-ish VR. At least you can rock an 80s punk-glam style!
- Thought this was Ludacris so I googled the Russian gdp and google networth and yeah google could legitimately bye Russia with some change.
  
  They need Nuclear power plants and think of the passive cooling of a Siberian data=centre!
- Just wait a while and I'll be nickle. Althout Musk might be interested now.
- Putin only wishes he could be bought out and become an American oligarch.
Twenty decillion rubles, best we can do is $3.50
- It's gonna be bout tree fiddy. Always tree fiddy! Gat dang lock-ness monsta!
  
  I gave him a dollar...
- I can pay two duodecillion tokens in a cryptocurrency I just made up. It is on track to overtake the ruble eventually!
- That's the exchange rate
considering the track record they should start putting "courts" in quotes when discussing Russia.
They should start a payment plan. $5 per day.

The current amount would be paid off by Saturday, April 11, 10951628027954030802047011389440
- So it'll be paid off sometime between the last star dying and the first black hole evaporating.
Lmao broke css that's how long the number is
Is that in USD or in rubles?
- Robux.
  
  They've moved on from apple gift cards?
- Since everyone is just giving you joke answers, it appears to be USD.
  
  I mean, I was mostly making a joke myself, the conversion rate is what 1 usd to 97 rubles?
  
  While an entire order of magnitude is insane- especially at that large a number, the difference isn’t really meaningful.
- First one, then the other.
- Robux since that's more valuable than the Russian ruble
  
  Do you think they accept Linden Dollars?
20 decillion is more than the GDP of the entire earth by many orders of magnitude.
- But the fine is 20 decillion rubles, not dollars.
  
  So like half a tic tac and a stick of bubblegum. Got it
That's in Ruzzian Rubles, in the civilized world we refer to that as: two flat stones.
Please learn to exponent. 20 • 10^³³^ So much more clear
- 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.
  
  It's your phone! You can change the font size or your lemmy client if it renders these numbers incorrectly.
- Apparently not on boost lol
  
  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.
- 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
  
  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
- It's click bait. Using exponents are not as eye catching.
"The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest..."
I might expect this kind of pissantry from North Korea, but Russia?

You'd think Mr. Google would just have a little accident out an 8th floor window.
Let's try one of their favorite retorts. No, u!
...rubles
- 50 dollars
Russia helping the US government force google to boycott russia.
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.
Russian government is near collapse if this shit is true. What a fucking pathetic joke they all are over there.
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.
That equates to 1 googol rubles
Russia just can't help making a joke out of itself...
the internet in russia must be so good now
- I play a lot of deadlock lately and i wish it was worse.
It's no surprise there aren't any good standup comics in Russia.

The best comic relief they have is running the country lmao
- 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.
  
  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.
They must have taken into account the future inflation rates when they expect to receive the payment..
So what does this mean for any existing business they do in Russia? I’m thinking mainly android / play store and things like YouTube?
- 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.
Texaco when you call them out for enslaving people
Twenty Sextillion FYI
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.
- 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.
  
  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.
It goes off my screen, it it 2 googol?
Google will soon owe Russia a googol
Doctor evil sure has went down hill.
- Pinky to mouth: "20 Brazilian dollars"
  
  I'm not going to try to figure out what that number actually is.
https://youtu.be/BRAkobf-tVI?si=fMXwDcOHU7SAXndb
Just wait a few more weeks. Eventually when the value reaches ≈ $5.93 x 10^66
then, paying in gold, that would be such a huge ball it would create a black hole in which we could send putSSin and any other russians who would like to be crushed ... or more simply crush him by any other means.
I guess we should start a gofundme for google ?

i'll give all the schrutebucks that i can muster
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