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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by CPLX on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:52PM (#19227974)
> At least $2.5B of that is on the table for any company that wants to build and office for 25,000 people in LIC.

Right. Leaving $500MM in cold hard taxpayer dollars to build a building for the richest guy in the world so he could promptly compete with local businesses. Which, to be clear, was not something a lot of those taxpayers were happy about.

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by vonmoltke on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:10PM (#19229139)
$500MM is not $3B, and you don't get to lie about the amount just because you think its still a big number.
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