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pdog on Aug 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses ...

> No one knows what Apple paid to license the technology [from Amazon]...

This is factually incorrect. Of course, there are executives at Amazon and Apple who know how much was paid to license the one-click patent.

abiox on Aug 18, 2017 [–]

'No one knows' here is idiomatic. Your response seems fallacious; you are equivocating by representing the words as literal, rather than addressing the idiomatic meaning.

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