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Randall Munroe answers your wildest questions

The TED Interview

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What's Going on With This?

The lawsuit was pretty quickly thrown out by a judge, but it highlights an underappreciated aspect of our legal system. It doesn't have to be reasonable or even involve numbers that are remotely connected to reality. The amount of money being sued for here is much bigger than the amount of money in the world. And sometimes when we talk about really big numbers, it can sort of blur together.

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