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> switching some lines to building military It got vetoed by Qatar (their SWF owns 17% of all voting shares in Volkswagen) because that would have meant working with Israeli companies [0] despite G…

The "Double Irish Dutch Sandwich" approach ended almost a decade ago as I mentioned, yet tech FDI remains strong and a hallmark of Ireland's economy. We're still investing in Irela…

They aren't targeted at the Western consumers - they are targeted at the India and ASEAN markets where they act as a gateway for customers who would previously have purchased used Apple products …

> Ireland supplied basically all of the English docs for windows 95, Yep, but the bulk of R&D FDI and the expansion of Ireland's tech scene only arose after Google opened it's campus …

Wikipedia is still on the Ofcom watchlist and might be designated Category 1 at some point.

Volkswagen squandering their dominance in the Chinese and American markets in the 2010s as well as the EU's slow response to the IRA and the NEV subsidy will be a textbook case study for how scel…

Hence who I used both HDI and median household income. And even with GNI my argument still holds. I'm surprised how so many HNers don't remember how poor Ireland used to be until 20-30 years…

> So what really matters for Ireland (and any country/region hosting these data centers) is whether the benefits in terms of capital spending + the few ongoing jobs created outweighs any incre…

> The 13% of GDP figure can be a bit misleading as GDP from being a tax haven tends to help the average irish citizen a lot less than more traditional ecconomic activity As I pointed out, if Irelan…

It's not misappropriation. Other countries within the EU could be much more business incorporation and FDI friendly, and IDA Ireland tends to be one of the more competent trade promotion agencies…

They basically re-report press releases. I've dealt with The Register as well as their sister publications back when I was still in product (especially during shudder RSA). The Reg keeps a snar…

> data centers do not belong in Ireland... Data Centers have been the cornerstone of Ireland's economy since the mid-2000s when the IDA began wooing tech FDI specifically by calling out data c…

Yep. IDA's services FDI model helped attract much of the tech scene that exists in Ireland today. In the 1990s and 2000s no one would have expected Ireland to become the tech hub it is today with…

Ireland has been a data center hub for decades - especially thanks to the IDA successfully wooing Microsoft back in 2007 [0], and it helped played a role in helping Ireland partially recover from the …

Strategic M&A has definitely picked up now that the first tranch of AI startups in Seed to Series B stage are hitting the 2-3 year mark and the dust has somewhat settled on how to evaluate a targe…

Yep. The name of the game right now in MENA is grabbing a chunk of Syria's reconstruction and development business [0] because it's a $200B bonanza [1] that can also now be connected with th…

> But "Western" is wrong, because the same cultural sphere extends to Australia, New Zealand, and Russian Far East Yes. And Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are view…

BendingSpoons isn't a PE fund. It's just loose terminology that has become rife on HN like the misuse of "VCs".

BendingSpoon isn't PE because they are not attempting a restructure to then exit out of the asset within a defined time period. When BendingSpoon or IAC acquired an asset, it's meant to be…

> Aren't all these panels coming from China anyway Turkiye not China in this case. Turkiye has a large PV fabrication industry as well [0][1][2][3] and it's Turkish companies that are lea…

Not New Mexico but New Spain is heavily taught - it's an entire section. I also don't know when you were in K-7 but knowing HN's age demographics probably the 1980s to early 1990s. From…

> Latin America is clearly European, in the sense I understand the concept But depending on where you are in Latin America as well as their familial background they may or may not associate with …

Yes, but most do not associate with some form of European identity or solidarity. The overwhelming majority of African Americans do not view Europeans as their kin and vice versa. Same with a plura…

What I mean is we aren't going to give European states undue favoritism due to personal ties, which Brzeziński, Kissinger, and Albright all did in some shape or form. After 1945, Western Europe g…

> One of my favorites is that Santa Fe has been the capital city of Nuevo Mexico since 1610. Acoma, another city in modern-day New Mexico, is about 500 years older still We were taught this in Cali…

As an Asian American I strongly disagree, as do most others of us non-white Americans. You guys don't actually understand how stuff actually works here or how we think. Our (Asian and Latino) a…

Mixed Race is a separate census designation which represents an additional 10% of the US. Either way Europeans overestimate American ties to Europe. If you actually visit America in 2026, most culture…