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      8 months ago

      Any source for that or is it just preemptive cynicism?

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      8 months ago

      Huh? Not that I know of. They’re going strong, taking on more projects around the world and are pretty transparent about what they do - they had an article about how / why one of their projects failed which i read but can’t find right now.