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ramchip

> WalMart spends about 3 million every year moving pennies around -- that actual coin type

I tried googling the data but I didn't find it. Is there a reference for that?

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Yes. Google walmart "moving pennies" and click on the first result

Please don't use google as a reference. Please, when you want to make a reference, use anything else.

The first two results are to hacker news (this page!) and after that the results are to pages about penny stocks.

http://www.google.dk/search?q=walmart%20%22moving%20pennies%...

I know my google-fu is worthless but I can at least follow directions, and it still comes up with nothing.

To be honest, I think he was making a joke about the HN post being its own reference, although I'm not too sure...

I was trying to illustrate that telling someone to google for references when they already indicated that it was unsuccessful, is not likely to be successful.

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