What I now wonder is why the hell they're trying to hide it then. If the numbers are strongly on your side, why hide them?!

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TeMPOraL 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because nobody reasonable believes water use is any issue, but these numbers are proxy for the usual stuff companies don't disclose for usual reasons (ones that rhyme with "competition" and "stock market")?

	▲	gspr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They sure as hell aren't making it easy for the "reasonable" to take their side when their response to the "unreasonable" is "the numbers you claim are bad are actually good, but you don't get to see them because they go to a different school".

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bluecheese452 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We have perfectly good reasons to hide behind shell companies and ndas! Anyone who disagrees is a hater!

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fragmede 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Because hedge funds are going to use those numbers to get better estimates of their business and revenues and use that in their forecasting which means Google loses in the stock market.