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4chan-for-beginners website Reddit has announced the winners of its charity give-away. The site said that it would donate 10 per cent of its ad revenues from the last year - US$827,659.49 - to 10 charities selected by its user base. Each charity will receive a check for $82,765.95 from Reddit. True to form, Redditors settled …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Holmes

    That will be huge for FSF

    They only get about $1 million a year in donations, and they make it go a very long way.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    there are a lot of deserving charities

    But I can't say that isn't a top-notch group of charities.

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  3. Sir Runcible Spoon
    Headmaster

    Decimate

    Finally, a correct usage of the word!

    So often I hear people use this term when they actually meant 'almost wiped out'.

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    1. Lord Egerton
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      Re: Decimate

      Indeed, I hadn't realised it's actual definition until I read World War Z where the Russian army decimate themselves to instil discipline.

      Now it bugs me when it's not used in the correct manner.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    "More of an impact to some recipients than to others"

    $82K will make almost no impact whatsoever on the $400M budget of Doctors Without Borders, but I don't think that anyone will call the few extra survivors a wasted effort.

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  5. Crazy Operations Guy

    WikiMedia?

    Why? They already have far too much anyway ($300,000 salaries for staff, seriously?). All of Reddit's money is probably just going to go into fueling Jimbo's private jet anyway...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: WikiMedia?

      If you're mad, you can go refresh the front page of Wikipedia a few hundred thousand times.

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