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Re:AMA: Bill Gates by EpicEng on Monday February 25, 2019 @04:08PM (#19249472)
>Bill Gates writing billion dollar checks is not exactly micro

US GDP was $19.39 trillion in 2017. 0.01% is micro on any scale. He could write those checks again and again and it would never solve systemic problems.

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Re:AMA: Bill Gates by solveit on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:43AM (#19252865)
Yeah, but that would require people understand big numbers. Million, billion, trillion, what's the difference?
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