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TeMPOraL on Feb 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, ...

Similarities between the two end up at "businesses write stuff off as costs of doing business instead of dealing with them up front". One can't just transfer moral judgment from one to the other.

toss1 on Feb 4, 2019 [–]

I made no claim that there was any more link than dealing with it as a cost-benefit calculation instead of properly sorting the problem up front.

I was not implying any moral judgement transfer, only the similarity of bad results of failing to deal with issues up front.

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