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		sgjohnson on July 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on... Why would it be in long scale? Is long scale even used in english at all?

pedro2 on July 5, 2022 [–]

It was a joke. But it made me realize, thanks to the comment above, that Earth's population is around 8 thousand millions, and not 8 billion as I'd come to believe.

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