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I think 1/12th of the entirety of humanity using your service is something of a milestone.

• stuhacking 16y ago
  Entirety of humanity? ~ 1/12th of the current population of the Earth, sure. However, (as of a 2009 estimate) there have been around 106 billion homo sapiens to have lived. Not to diminish the impact of your statistic with pedantry or anything. :) source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+the+earth&a=*MC.the+earth-_*Country- http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+the+earth...
  • jerf 16y ago
    I don't think it's all that shocking that we don't measure the dead people in that metric. That's not pedantry, that's deliberately twisting words to make a true statement false and then chortling about it.
    • nkohari 16y ago
      Isn't that the point of a good proportion of comments on Hacker News? It seems to be.
      • stuhacking 16y ago
        It seems I made a light hearted comment on Hacker News. What was I thinking!
    • stuhacking 16y ago
      Geez, It was a joke. When did Hackers eschew humour again? Joking aside though - He did use the phrase 'entirety of humanity'. On the basis of that, I did not twist his words.
• felipe 16y ago
  QQ has reached 500 million users in 2007 [1]. Recently QQ announced they have 100 million simultaneous online users [2]. [1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/qq_china_im_web20.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/qq_china_im_web20.php [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ