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by freehunter 5114 days ago
Reminds me of the Cold War discussions on "megadeath". If we fire this missile, how many millions of people would die? It's dehumanizing, and "two megadeaths" sounds a lot more appealing to the eyes and ears than "two million deaths" or "2,000,000 people dead".

We're only hurting 180 megausers, not 180,000,000[1] users.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload#Statistics