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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by pyroinferno on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:49PM (#14912915)
Why leave it at American companies? The Dutch East India Company was far more powerful and bigger than any company seen today.
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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by bb611 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @03:08PM (#14913641)
Beyond that, it was more powerful than many (maybe most) modern governments. It was an international power unto itself.
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