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   by how_many_times 8y ago

   >> The US is doing great. The rest of the world not so much. These are going to be famous last words. The US is going to be doing horribly over the next decade, precisely because of how "great" the last decade has been. If I
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   by how_many_times 8y ago

   >> When private sector fails, it goes out of business and other competent businesses take over. Unless it is a bank, or an important tool for surveillance (e.g. Facebook in 2020). In which case losses are irrelevant and it is ultimate
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   by how_many_times 8y ago

   A quick search for the word Facebook on that website reveals an uncomfortably pro-Facebook and anti-Google stance, couched amidst lots and lots of other stuff so the pattern cannot be discerned unless someone actually does a search. If the
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   by how_many_times 8y ago

   >> Is it never beneficial for a good person to work at a bad company, perhaps making it less bad? That's an interesting thought. If carried to its logical conclusion, the 'good people' had many, many, many years to infl