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That ties up capital investment - the main people able to invest will be inefficient / corrupt cronies.

This isn't just about Greece severing ties with the Eurozone; it's about how they would have done it.

Really, with stdin/stdout the sky is the limit, and there are minimal ties to any specific service since only the most generic raw cloud storage features are being used.

People could elect politicians that choose to reduce ties with the US but they do not out of self interest.

The only thing that matters is how much each party to the transaction values those ties.

Indeed, cutting ties with google is quite possible (just don't sign in with a google account when setting your phone up).

Imagine that instead of ties, the other guy has a share of GM stock that he bought two years ago for $40.

If they really enjoy ties or collect them, they would probably be able to tell if their wives gave them cheap ones.

The CIA supposedly cut IBB financing in the 1970s after its ties to Cold War propaganda arms like Radio Free Europe were exposed.

I would hire an analyst with ties to any employees in the organization to ask around.

The auditor is also legally required to publicly disclose any employment conversations they've had with someone they've audited and for any financial ties linking the audit company with the new company to be broken.

But because some of us have to wear suits and ties.

The so-called "network effect" of open-source projects has some inherent stickiness, but again, there isn't that much that ties a project to GitHub.

"Really, with stdin/stdout the sky is the limit, and there are minimal ties to any specific service since only the most generic raw cloud storage features are being used." That's the key and that's why it's here.