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There is also a supposed conversation between him and Larry Page before he left. From what I've read, Larry supposedly knew a lot about the circumstances of his
by throwaway90125 9y ago
There is also a supposed conversation between him and Larry Page before he left. From what I've read, Larry supposedly knew a lot about the circumstances of his leaving, and what transpired in that meeting supposedly will undermine Waymo's position. He's being deposed, but apparently Uber is only allowed to ask him one question, which is odd.
Edit: downvoted as expected. I bet that 9 out of 10 people upvoting these stories and downvoting every comment that is in the least supportive of Uber or critical of Google are bitter Google employees.
- sgift 9y agoI must be number 10 then. No connection to Google, just don't think hearsay is helpful/interesting.
- throwaway90125 9y agoUber has requested that Larry Page be deposed and they have questions they want to ask him under oath. That's fact, not hearsay. They clearly have questions the truth of which will weaken Waymo's position. Lawyers don't ask questions they don't already know the answer to. The only unknown is if Larry will lie under oath or be able to skillfully answer in a way that doesn't hurt Waymo's position.
- Gigablah 9y agoOr Larry simply tells the truth and doesn't hurt Waymo's position. The bias is dripping off your lips.
- throwaway90125 9y agoAgain, lawyers don't ask questions that they don't already know the answer to. They wouldn't ask to depose him if they didn't think the answers would help their position. This is lawyering 101 level obviousness.
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- TorKlingberg 9y agoSo if Uber were simply in the wrong, their lawyers would not ask any questions at all?
- gvb 9y agoThis is a deposition, not the trial. Lawyers ask as many questions as possible in the deposition and drill in on all problem areas looking for contradictions and undisclosed information. That's how the Waymo lawyers found out about Spider. "Waymo learned of Spider’s existence during the deposition of Asheem Linaval, an engineer Levandowski recruited from Google to join him at Uber..."[1] In a trial, they only ask questions that whose answers are beneficial to their case. They know the answers are beneficial because they already asked the questions in deposition. If the answer is different at the trial, it is perjury. If the answer is the same, it helps their case. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/a-waymo-filing-leaks-lidar-tech-details-in-uber-lawsuit/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/a-waymo-filing-leaks-lidar...
- dang 9y ago> The bias is dripping off your lips. Please don't comment uncivilly here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- fstuff 9y agoI read they can only ask one question because there was no proof the conversation occurred except for him saying it happened. the judge was being lenient allowing one question.
- throwaway90125 9y agoIf the conversation happened, are they allowed to ask more questions? If so, the first question just needs to be "Did you have a conversation with Anthony Levandowsky?"
- dang 9y agoThe HN guidelines ask you not to go on about downvotes. Bilious fantasies about downvoters are definitely precluded. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216420 and marked it off-topic.