Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
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#2I suspect its just a tax break related policy, ive been doing the same shit at US companies (still in EU), and some European companies (in EU) and the US one were the only one asking me to file reports for hours classified as R&D, maybe european ones have no incentive to do that
Id say, considering that, and considering that for these corps taxes are lava, i’d go to look at incentives on taxes about R&D filing
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#3I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering under R&D.
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#4Seems like a giant waste, where is my thorium power plant? where is my new battery tech? where is my fleet of robot farmers?
Re: Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
#5Compare Capex. That's a better indicator of long term spending.
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#6I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering under R&D.
Exactly, I worked at a big 4 in Ireland and that is what they do here.
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#7Seems like a giant waste, where is my thorium power plant? where is my new battery tech? where is my fleet of robot farmers?
best i can do is more intrusive ads
Re: Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
#8I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering under R&D.
Operations should not be R&D, but everything else certainly is. Why wouldn't it be?
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#9I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering under R&D.
That seems reasonable. The D does stand for Development.
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#10Seems like a giant waste, where is my thorium power plant? where is my new battery tech? where is my fleet of robot farmers?
There's a lot of agtech stuff running on AWS.