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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by tedunangst on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:49PM (#15752363)
If HSBC was making profits of $4 trillion, they were also lying on their financial statements.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by kbenson on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:52PM (#15753224)
If ever you need evidence that people see really large numbers and lose perspective, look to this conversation and how many people completely glossed over the use of trillions instead of billions, a mistake so small it puts HSBC revenue in the realm of well developed nation states...
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by kinkrtyavimoodh on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:48AM (#15754563)
Apparently, when wielding numbers for outrage, the quantitative details are merely a trivial annoyance.
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