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I own my own servers and lease a full rack and I serve roughly 1 billion page impressions per month.

50% of zero is zero, 50% of a billion dollar company is $500M worth.

"First, the “estimate” of $1 billion was partially set by Google itself.

I value HN at $1 billion by offering to buy only 1 share of 1 billion in common stock for $1 right now.

It is the idea that you will start a company that becomes the next Facebook and you become a billionaire over about 10 years of nights.

The supplement and meal replacement powder/drink industry is a multi-billion dollar market.

Hell, I'm even done with sketchy torrent sites, and different scene groups fighting over who gets to release what, and a billion codecs and formats.

[1]The regulation ended up costing the auto/gasoline industry billions of dollars to retool.

In that case, Oracle put Larry Ellison on the stand and had him speculate that Oracle must have lost $4 billion in software sales as a result of the admitted infringements.

Even with the expensive $1 billion warranty extension their balance sheet on pure hardware alone is far, far better than Sony's, which means that MS actually needs to sell fewer games per console to come out ahead in total profit.

That's a testament to the sheer volume of people who think that Microsoft's service offering is valuable enough to pay cold hard cash for, but it also, of course, goes straight to Microsoft's bottom line, to the tune of around a billion dollars per year.

The only reasonably accurate paragraph is this: "And, more importantly, the lower energy range from 114 to just under 145 billion electron volts, a region of energy that Fermilab has determined, through earlier experiments, may harbor the Higgs, has not been ruled out.