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It's an added benefit. That's good, no? Or are you saying all Irish businesses are bad because they are based in the tax haven. If you don't invest in develop

It's an added benefit. That's good, no? Or are you saying all Irish businesses are bad because they are based in the tax haven. If you don't invest in developing your home country, which country should you focus on? Or we can throw a dart at a map and choose whatever country the dart lands on?

edoceo 6y ago
The dart idea might give us better distribution? Throw a dart and solve problems/invest in solutions for where it sticks. Mostly be fixing ocean problems but I'm OK with that.
- atonse 6y ago
  Wouldn’t this just mean that countries with larger land mass get more investment rather than countries with more people?
  - edoceo 6y ago
    Well, (my) darts aren't accurate, so, maybe? I couldn't hit Belgium from 3m away but I probably couldn't hit USA either. I'm thinking water still wins. And it depends on the map projection too. Maybe the dart is to focus on that specific circular area, like 10km radius or something? Or maybe every group gets an equal slice on the dart board? Just something to help distribution rather than some money-motivated/short-term-outrage method we seem to have now.
    - ergocoder 6y ago
      Ah, my snarky comment turns into a legit technical question. Well, throwing a dart wouldn't be too bad though....
      - atlasunshrugged 6y ago
        This is fun! To test the theory I just threw a pointy pen at the map I have hanging on my wall 5x - 3x water, 1x Ethiopia, 1x USA. Unfortunately I have to do some real work otherwise I'd do a few hundred more and see where we ended up edit: Looking at my map, I think they arbitrarily shrank the size of the oceans to prioritize landmass (it's one of those ones where you scratch off the countries you've been to), so it's quite possible that the proportion of darts hitting water would be higher normally
  - BurningFrog 6y ago
    The Irish are some of the best dart players in the world, so I think Stripe would end up in Dublin either way.

edoceo 6y ago

The dart idea might give us better distribution? Throw a dart and solve problems/invest in solutions for where it sticks. Mostly be fixing ocean problems but I'm OK with that.

atonse 6y ago
Wouldn’t this just mean that countries with larger land mass get more investment rather than countries with more people?
- edoceo 6y ago
  Well, (my) darts aren't accurate, so, maybe? I couldn't hit Belgium from 3m away but I probably couldn't hit USA either. I'm thinking water still wins. And it depends on the map projection too. Maybe the dart is to focus on that specific circular area, like 10km radius or something? Or maybe every group gets an equal slice on the dart board? Just something to help distribution rather than some money-motivated/short-term-outrage method we seem to have now.
  - ergocoder 6y ago
    Ah, my snarky comment turns into a legit technical question. Well, throwing a dart wouldn't be too bad though....
    - atlasunshrugged 6y ago
      This is fun! To test the theory I just threw a pointy pen at the map I have hanging on my wall 5x - 3x water, 1x Ethiopia, 1x USA. Unfortunately I have to do some real work otherwise I'd do a few hundred more and see where we ended up edit: Looking at my map, I think they arbitrarily shrank the size of the oceans to prioritize landmass (it's one of those ones where you scratch off the countries you've been to), so it's quite possible that the proportion of darts hitting water would be higher normally
- BurningFrog 6y ago
  The Irish are some of the best dart players in the world, so I think Stripe would end up in Dublin either way.