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onetimemanytimeon Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland

Goodwill with the government? That $5 Billion or whatever will last, what, 4 seconds in Capitol Hill?

Name a US company that lost market share for not paying more taxes than required.

They should invest more when it comes to good causes, yeah.

onetimemanytimeon Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland

OK. John takes over Google and pays more taxes when the current scheme is legal. How is that rationalized? Why not pay even more?

onetimemanytimeon Single New Jersey deli boasts a $105M market cap, despite $14K in sales

would you have known if this story wasn't posted? Plus every small shop has potential....1 trillion, billion stores all over the world so the value is forward looking ;)

onetimemanytimeon Single New Jersey deli boasts a $105M market cap, despite $14K in sales

More details: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/hometown-international-nj-de...

onetimemanytimeon South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says

Not in the field, but I think it depends how far down and in how many ways the vaccine tries to cut the virus down. My guess is that the leaves can be modified faster than branches ...

onetimemanytimeon Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate as Wall Street bonuses

>>Had they done what your are suggesting, the markets wouldn’t have reacted the way they did, the companies would have gone bankrupt under government mismanagement, the economy would have continued to crater, and not $1 of the money would have been recovered.

Nah. Keep the management, they run the business not owners. In fact give them raises and bonuses. It's not like managers had other employment options.

But either way, they did get a lifesaving bailout, regardless of the merits or whether US got their money back

onetimemanytimeon Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate as Wall Street bonuses

>>Taxpayers not only recouped everything from the 2008 bailouts, they actually earned a $15.3 billion profit. How is that “socializing their biggest failures”?

Taxpayers should have behaved like hedge funds behave with one another...merciless. Want cash cause no one else loans to you? Sure, hand 95% of the business. The difference between what I said and $15.3 Billion is the gift.

onetimemanytimeon The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple

>>They pretty much intentionally lost S3TC patent case opting not to push for patent invalidation

Do you have any inside knowledge or just guessing the strategy of the lawyers in the courtroom?

onetimemanytimeon U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist

Hey China, what if we "give" you Siberia? Will that buy us 20 years of peace? Maybe by then you'll deflate https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-bo...

onetimemanytimeon I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

NOT at all. I'm just willing to believe that some Russian, Chines, "Muslims" or [insert anything here] are willing to do harm to our system. I am EXTREMELY happy that ACLU took the case so the truth has a chance to come out

onetimemanytimeon I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

Court case will answer that.

onetimemanytimeon I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

well, it is possible that someone may have different feelings about the USA, despite living here, no?

onetimemanytimeon I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

No, I said /meant the No-Fly list should not exist, at least of US persons. If you are too dangerous to fly, you should be either in jail or mental hospital.

onetimemanytimeon 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

I still go with the assumption that everything that is sitting somewhere in some server will be leaked. Having unnecessary data is the problem

onetimemanytimeon An insider-trading indictment shows ties to Bloomberg News scoops

do you think 100% of them get caught?

onetimemanytimeon Who Owns the Nile?

Water is life or death. So they might have to try it.

Go block oil extraction in the Arab world and USA will be all over you...national interest.

onetimemanytimeon Who Owns the Nile?

At some point there were just a bunch of tribes living around the world without much of a horizon. A "real" country played them against each other

onetimemanytimeon IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials

So El Chapo's daughters (US citizens) declare $50 Million, 10 years from now and nothing happens? I doubt it. Bells will ring

If you sold drugs...might as well break tax laws too or you risk your profession:)

onetimemanytimeon Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets

Sadly the world is not the simple. Small, defenseless nations and people are enslaved, one way or another. So, yeah, life is grand in USA and Western nations (relatively speaking) but maybe it's because their military defends it?

Ukraine for example feels different https://i.insider.com/54ff45afeab8ea38458b4568?width=800&for... . War sucks so best to make sure no one dares to start one with you.

onetimemanytimeon Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since records began'

It could be a coincidence but honestly if we see too many of these records, it may, actually be a forest.

onetimemanytimeon A Tiger Cub’s $20B Margin Call Means More Hedge Fund Pain Ahead

aren't they mostly betting against other hedgies /big investors? Some laugh, some cry

onetimemanytimeon Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona

even if they didn't, I'm almost certain US would loan it to them at -% interest. Chips today are like grain supplies and heavy industry. You need them in your country

onetimemanytimeon Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona

This and vaccine /med production from start to finish within borders is going to be the focus of US and EU going forward I think. For obvious reasons

onetimemanytimeon French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers

I am sure they have sold even next year's cheese by now. Kudos to them for being PR savvy

onetimemanytimeon Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web

>>Google donated $2M [1]. In 2010, Google also donated $2m [2].

$2 Million a year? Now I know why Googlers complained about having one less olive in their lunch salad.

How much does Google PROFIT from Wikipedia and how much does Wikipedia loses in fundraising when Google fails to send users to the info provider?

onetimemanytimeon Tony Hsieh bankrolled his followers, who enabled his risky lifestyle

Ultimately everyone makes his own decisions, especially someone with essentially unlimited funds. We can go through the moves and end at the same conclusion.

onetimemanytimeon Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019)

So it becomes cool again and we can roam, digging around. What traces could we find?

onetimemanytimeon EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

OK, show me a press release mentioning orders, contracts.

"The EU reached a deal with Pfizer in November for 300 million doses and in January negotiated a preliminary deal for another 300 million." https://www.dw.com/en/eu-orders-300-million-more-biontech-pf...

USA agreed to buy 100-500 Million in JULY 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/health/pfizer-covid-19-va...

The fact is that EU is too slow, too risk adverse and 28 countries must agree. In USA the President winks, and it's done. (In this case it was beneficial.)

onetimemanytimeon EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

But USA signed a purchase agreement to buy the vaccines way before EU did. Pfizer is obligated to deliver them first. Warp speed was just to get it going, USA would cover any loses.

Can we agree that $20 or even $50 Billion is NOTHING to USA or EU at this point...each month in delays costs more. USA realized that a year ago and blocked doses from all, including 100 million Pfizer doses in July 2020. https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...

onetimemanytimeon EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

Export? USA and UK bought those vaccines a year ago from Pfizer, Moderna, J&J and AstraZeneca. Warp Speed, USA gambled and the world is better because of it.

They are contracts and dates on which x million doses are to be delivered by. Why didn't EU do the same? Crying now it's too late and a trade war can go both ways. Say, no vaccine would be produced unless a certain item that is produced in USA goes to a Belgium factory.