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better to spend that money on, what, plastic widgets and more manipulative ads?

• trhway 5y ago
  actually the LHC is sub-$10B endeavor, and it is almost pocket money in the world of manipulative ads. Google's profit (not revenue) is $17B/quarter - i.e. Google can build 2 LHC per quarter.
  • B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago
    It's been going that way since Gutenberg. My pet theory is that democracy is a subproduct of soap advertisement.
  • toast0 5y ago
    LHC spend probably qualifies for R&D tax incentives, which might end up getting them more than 2 per quarter.
    • astrange 5y ago
      I think Google's ad R&D also qualifies for those. It's part of the reason Amazon historically pays no taxes (the other one being that Amazon.com is barely profitable.)