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A completely unsubstantiated statement.

US corporate tax is 35%.

Yes, it is a guess that might be wrong, but it is a best guess you have. Staying on the old page is also a guess, which might be wrong, possibly with a larger likelihood.

Uhm, no. Google can't be implemented in Perl.

Free for all existing customers, which is a vast majority.

One of the core ideas of Communism - workers own the means of production. Source code is means of production for software. Capitalism is when the source code is owned by the "factory owner", i.e. corporation, and not by the people who actually produce it.

Example: programmers who work at Microsoft don't own the source code and can't use it for their own benefit, while Microsoft makes money from it and only pays wages, which are below the value of source code to the company. This is the old model of Capitalism.

Open Source is very much a Communist idea. People who work on open source, even if they are payed for it, still have access to their work and can use it independently of the company.

But the actual Borat movie (the parts outside of America) was filmed in Eastern Europe (Romania, I think), not Kazakhstan.

I never had any serious issues with it.

> Unless I'm missing a Google Siri beater, you're talking about Google's voice search in its iOS app. It's much faster than Siri, but it's also much less sophisticated. I asked this very question on Quora recently[1].

I believe he's talking about Google Now on Android, which has already surpassed Siri.

Apple's Youtube app also made a large portion of content unavailable because of lack of advertisement support.

lol

I don't know how these acquisitions are relevant at all given that all dissections of A-series chips revealed reference ARM Cortex designs underneath. At best Apple design packaging of these chips, but that's 1% of work.

I'm sorry you are so brainwashed by Apple marketing. Apple's Ax line is using reference ARM designs, with negligible modifications.

Do you really believe Android manufacturers use fundamentally different chips? Most of Apple chips are designed and manufactured by other companies, including the CPU.

Meanwhile FB Android app is still unusably slow and bug-ridden. It's just not acceptable for someone who wants be perceived as a strong technology company.

Seriously? FB is one of the worst slow moving companies in mobile. Google mobile apps were always better.

Hiring and retention.

Mobile Opera is a completely different browser and not relevant to the Blogger admin issue at all.

Which was mostly developed by Google. They are the biggest contributor to open source WebKit these days, eclipsing even Apple.

It's not a "search engine". It's a frontend to Bing.

Google owns mobile advertisement, as well as mobile search. They are in an excellent position for the future.

64-bit is not really useful for browsers with multi-process architecture like Chrome. It is very unlikely that a single tab will need 64-bit address space.

It's not their own physics engine. It's a licensed technology:

http://beamng.com/

That's a really freaking huge "what if". Facebook is not exactly a young company, founded 8 years ago. They've been trying to find a killer business model for many years. I wonder what makes people believe they will find one.

The market perception right now is "Facebook swindled us". It will affect Facebook stock price for quite some time.

Google's revenue growth for the year prior to IPO (2003) was 234%. Facebook's was 88%. Sorry, but Google was a massively better business.

Microsoft Visual C++ supported "Edit and Continue" for many many years.

Facebook isn't a startup.

Someone might as well find a vulnerability in a Javascript engine. What's your point?

Try the literal search feature on Google.