OT: Can someone explain why 3 votes made this the 3rd post on the frontpage?
What's even stranger is that your post is always auto-closed. No matter if I open it, log in, log out .. whatever. Whenever I reload this page, your post is auto-closed.
How Google is priming its Next Billion ambition in India
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#13OT: Can someone explain why 3 votes made this the 3rd post on the frontpage?
OT but I really don't understand these types of questions. The possible answers range from "because the ranking works that way" to "someone with privileges wanted it that way". On either end of the spectrum, the real question remains: so what? What difference does it make why a particular post is in a particular position? If the title seems interesting, you click on it. If not, you move on. I don't mean to question y…
I mean “so what” is almost always “so i can understand better”.
Granted not always for the most productive ends....
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#14let's hope china (or somebody else) crushes their dreams. seeing the same big four dominate everything over and over and over is getting tiresome. can GOOG/FB/AMZN die already?
That is a very strange sentiment. I would prefer them being overtaken by a better (US/India or any moderately free country) company. I would prefer they not be crushed by an oppressive regime.
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#15OT: Can someone explain why 3 votes made this the 3rd post on the frontpage?
What's even stranger is that your post is always auto-closed. No matter if I open it, log in, log out .. whatever. Whenever I reload this page, your post is auto-closed.
Yes, that is strange.
To quote calcifer:
> "someone with privileges wanted it that way"
And it is off-topic.
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#16OT: Can someone explain why 3 votes made this the 3rd post on the frontpage?
What's even stranger is that your post is always auto-closed. No matter if I open it, log in, log out .. whatever. Whenever I reload this page, your post is auto-closed.
I default-collapsed it because it's so offtopic. I guess that has a catnip effect when a thread is at #1. But consider how irrelevant all these comments are.
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#17let's hope china (or somebody else) crushes their dreams. seeing the same big four dominate everything over and over and over is getting tiresome. can GOOG/FB/AMZN die already?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, including rant-only comments.
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#18Sometimes I wish people wrote concise stories. This one goes on forever. It is not a book that we need to learn everything from the beginning. Interesting is this comes 2 days after Google India has lost a huge tax case:
https://www.medianama.com/2017/10/223-itat-google-india-tax-...
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#19let's hope china (or somebody else) crushes their dreams. seeing the same big four dominate everything over and over and over is getting tiresome. can GOOG/FB/AMZN die already?
That is a very strange sentiment. I would prefer them being overtaken by a better (US/India or any moderately free country) company. I would prefer they not be crushed by an oppressive regime.
I disagree. Power consolidation into a handful of multinational corporations has the potential to destabilize the globe more than a single oppressive regime. If dozens or hundreds of countries require these companies to function, that takes power from the country's citizens(if it's a democracy) to the hands of the powerful within those multinational corporations.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is a very strange sentiment. I would prefer them being overtaken by a better (US/India or any moderately free country) company. I would prefer they not be crushed by an oppressive regime.
I disagree. Power consolidation into a handful of multinational corporations has the potential to destabilize the globe more than a single oppressive regime. If dozens or hundreds of countries require these companies to function, that takes power from the country's citizens(if it's a democracy) to the hands of the powerful within those multinational corporations.
"potential to destabilize"
Potential evil vs actual oppression today?