▲ 398 ▼ Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.theregister.com) submitted 2 years ago by Louisoix@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world 116 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 99 points 2 years ago (3 children) 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. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 16 points 2 years ago Doubling every week means an interest rate of almost 5 × 10^17^ %. That can barely offset the ruble's inflation. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago I thought some court clerk had fallen asleep writing out zeroes and that's what they'd ended up with. permalink fedilink source parent [–] viking@infosec.pub 1 point 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 16 points 2 years ago Doubling every week means an interest rate of almost 5 × 10^17^ %. That can barely offset the ruble's inflation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago I thought some court clerk had fallen asleep writing out zeroes and that's what they'd ended up with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 point 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent