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How is this related in any way to technology?

Note that the initial attacks by Hamas were deemed off-topic here...


@dang, why is there no black bar at the top of HN?


At what point will armchair CEOs stop with the "lmao x is just a blip in y's revenue"?

Do you think 345M grow on trees?


They are expected to have $13.2 billion this year.


I think that number is their revenue rather than their profit, which is probably closer to $3 billion. So, this fine would be (very roughly) 10% of their profits for the year.


Fines against companies should be revenue based instead of profit based. Companies have too much wiggle room from revenue to profit.


I think they should be based on guidelines that take into consideration the damage the company did, irrespective of the amount of money they make or have in the bank. That's how it works for the likes of you and me.


Not in Finland.


Does this comment in any material way relate to either my comment or the comment to which I was responding? I'd love to know more about how it works in Finland, but I can't figure out why you left this message.


I think the point was that, in some countries, fines are scaled to wealth level. The typical example case is traffic violation: a $100 speeding ticket can be life-destroying for a poor person, and a pocket change for a wealthy person. The intent of the law is neither, so by scaling the fine by wealth of the offender, you can achieve the designed level of pain/annoyance regardless of one's material status.

An alternative to that, used e.g. in my country - Poland - is to create a "secondary currency" of penalty points. Rich or poor, you only have 24 of them, and if you lose them all, kiss your driving license goodbye.

One would think that penalty points could work here too, instead of scaling revenue, but the problem is, companies can rapidly split, merge, or otherwise shed their legal identity, so there's nothing to pin those penalty points to.


Why would you punish success? Do you not want successful companies?


I'm honestly flabbergasted at this take, holy shit.


Not in the EU!


non-STEM education


lmao literally the same second


There you go:


> even if the job was a remote one

amazing


Interesting: This user has posted two comments in almost ten years and this is one of them.


submarine article


Yep, Palm PR is almost certainly still out there pushing good vibes.


It is me.


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