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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that's what's happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It's been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

    Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word "boffins" regularly.

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