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Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by misiti3780 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:33AM (#34608745)
it wasnt billions, it was 1 billion
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Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:09AM (#34609411)
"$1,000,000,000 in 2012 is worth $1,292,703,642.08 today"

Which is more than $1bn and therefore qualifies as "billions".

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Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by graphe on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:21AM (#34609508)
I can't believe your ego couldn't take that. $109 isn't hundreds of dollars.
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Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by prostanac on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:41AM (#34612042)
and $900,000,000 today will someday be worth over $1B, but we don't call them billions.
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