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I appreciate the point, but the numbers there are the proportion of revenue, not the percentage of revenue, so they're off by a factor of 100.

You're absolutely right; updated!

Makes a speeding ticket for someone making minimum wage look expensive

Look expensive? It means not eating

Yeah, it looks like that comparatively.

I don’t think you can just state the result for everyone.

The relevant denominator is the revenue from these data sales.

Seems like a weird comparison to make considering the money they made selling the data is only a small fraction of their overall revenue.

It is a weird comparison, because it's intentionally deceptive.

That’s like fining me $1 if I did my math right.