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Billionaires were already a policy failure, a trillionaire is a catastrophe

Do average people understand how much money a million million dollars is? $500M out of $1T is 0.05%, or 1 in 2,000. It’s like an average household spending $100. Except the average household would notice the expense. It’s imperceptible when you basically have unlimited funds.

My dude, it says right there “someone said” because I’m repeating something I found amusing. Just because you’ve seen a joke before doesn't mean someone else won’t enjoy it.

So, funny thing, I shared this old (but still funny to me) expression and some troll dusted themselves off and took the time to insult me. They’d seen it before, apparently.

* clicks reference links *

“Oh, I majored in Computer Science but I don’t really care much about implementation details.”

* reads Wikipedia article about cache replacement policies *

“The alternative situation, when the cache is checked and found not to contain any entry with the desired tag, is known as a cache miss. This requires a more expensive access of data from the backing store. Once the requested data is retrieved, it is typically copied into the cache, ready for the next access.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_(computing)#cache_miss

I once worked with a guy who would greet minor setbacks by yelling out “CACHE MISS!” and anyway that one stuck with me.

The French word for coal is charbon
C'est parfait

Linguistic theory suggests the earliest, most commmon words in a language are the shortest. English famously has “I” and “me”. The French word for gold is “or” and fire is “fir”