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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by skrebbel on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:38AM (#21013861)
Offtopic, but I'm not sure I've ever read a more American phrase than "pre-millionaire".
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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by neilv on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:19AM (#21014594)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck

> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by totaldude87 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:48AM (#21016109)
This!!!! made my day :)
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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by sushid on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:42AM (#21015001)
I mean a core team sitting on “paper” money (in the sense it’s very close to being liquid) sounds very much pre-millionaire to me.
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