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		DSingularity on July 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% That ratio is unreliable because of how they invest so much in future growth. Those capital and R&D expenses will not be around forever.

travem on July 25, 2019 [–]

That may turn out to be so in the long term, but it doesn't align with the current ethos of "It's always day one" at Amazon.

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