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[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

That's a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 12 points 1 month ago

It’s like if I became 10,000 times less attractive. Same thing.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Is it more than 3?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

it's still a concern for biden

[-] Shard@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

Its more like 0.5% difference.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Not really, the new value is 0.0001% of the old.

Just because the number has barely fewer digits doesn't mean it's barely smaller

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