[HN Gopher] Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all compani...
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       Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and
       government of France
        
       Author : impish9208
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-01-15 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | lnxg33k1 wrote:
       | I 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
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       | 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
        
       | dekhn wrote:
       | I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering
       | under R&D.
        
         | ainiriand wrote:
         | Exactly, I worked at a big 4 in Ireland and that is what they
         | do here.
        
         | ars wrote:
         | Operations should not be R&D, but everything else certainly is.
         | Why wouldn't it be?
        
         | LeoPanthera wrote:
         | That seems reasonable. The D does stand for Development.
        
       | WhereIsTheTruth wrote:
       | Seems like a giant waste, where is my thorium power plant? where
       | is my new battery tech? where is my fleet of robot farmers?
        
         | pie420 wrote:
         | best i can do is more intrusive ads
        
       | ycdxvjp wrote:
       | Compare Capex. That's a better indicator of long term spending.
        
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