schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml • 3 days agoChina Is Bombarding Tech Talent With Job Offers. The West Is Freaking Out.external-linkmessage-square38 fedilinkarrow-up169file-textcross-posted to: newstechnology@lemmygrad.ml
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https://archive.ph/20241127093611/https://www.wsj.com/world/china-tech-poaching-job-offer-pay-raise-f8ceac5b
minus-squareshastaxc@lemm.eehexbear1·2 days agoWhy would they say thousand million instead of billion? linkfedilink
minus-squaremodulus@lemmy.mlhexbear3·1 day agoAt a guess, it's following older British norms, whereby a billion is what it is in other European languages (a million million) and a thousand million is a thousand million or, more pretentiously, a milliard. You'd have to ask the authors though. linkfedilink
Why would they say thousand million instead of billion?
At a guess, it's following older British norms, whereby a billion is what it is in other European languages (a million million) and a thousand million is a thousand million or, more pretentiously, a milliard. You'd have to ask the authors though.
That's interesting. Thanks