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"In 1998, Yahoo turned down the opportunity to acquire Google for $1 million."


Sure, but Google is not inflating due to a cosmological constant. If Yahoo had acquired Google, Google would now be worthless, not a trillion-dollar company.


Exactly.

Don't forget that Yahoo bought three search engines.

(Full disclosure: I worked for one of the companies they acquired).


> Google is not inflating due to a cosmological constant

Well put!


what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?


From falsehood, anything follows. (I'm implying here that you don't have unstoppable force and you don't have immovable object)


If your grandmother had wheels, then she's be a bicycle.


From contradiction, non-contradiction.


MSN.


I like how MSN manages to pack so much content onto a single page—it’s surprisingly intuitive. I’m not sure why that kind of formatting isn’t more common.


A deflection.




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