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Apple Announces Plan to Build $1 Billion Campus in Texas

posted by takyon on Thursday December 13 2018, @02:00PM   
from the big-apple dept.

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Apple announces plan to build $1 billion campus in Texas

Apple will build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, and establish smaller new locations in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, the company said Thursday. The tech giant based in Cupertino, California, says the new campus in Austin will start with 5,000 employees working in engineering, research and development, operations, finance, sales and customer support. It will be less than a mile from existing Apple facilities.

The other new locations will have more than 1,000 employees each.

Austin already is home to more than 6,000 Apple employees, representing the largest population of the company's workers outside of Apple's Cupertino headquarters, where most of its roughly 37,000 California employees work.

[...] The company also said it plans to expand in Pittsburgh, New York and Colorado over the next three years.

Apple press release. Also at CNET.

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• Your last sentence is another rebutted by Bastiat Your last sentence is another rebutted by Bastiat (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 13 2018, @03:58PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 13 2018, @03:58PM (#773997)

  You write:

  I should also point out that those with the viewpoint you just describe seem to really think that society's resources ought not to be organized.

  In 1850, Bastiat rebutted this point directly [bastiat.org]:

  Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.

  We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

  Glorious!

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• Re:Your last sentence is another rebutted by Basti (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday December 13 2018, @04:24PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Thursday December 13 2018, @04:24PM (#774006)

  Alrighty. So let's say that government isn't organizing society's resources. You've gotten what you want. Congratulations.

  But you also are clear that you want society's resources to be organized in some way.

  So who or what is organizing society's resources? Who or what is preventing people from ignoring that organization of society's resources for their own personal gain? Because as far as I can tell, it seems like the only answer anarchists of various kinds can offer is pixie dust and magic.

  --
  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

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