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Well, duh? And nobody out of the thousands engineers would be tempted to break it, if they could get away with it? That's my point, really. FAANG employs a rid
by RicoElectrico 3y ago
Well, duh? And nobody out of the thousands engineers would be tempted to break it, if they could get away with it?
That's my point, really. FAANG employs a ridiculous number of SW folks for outliers to be quite expected. As a reminder, we had Snowden in NSA who at that time was estimated to have a headcount of 20k or so.
- ericalexander0 3y agoSeverance packages with claw back clauses that enforce the NDA. Break the NDA and risk paying back the severance plus legal costs. Isn't worth the risk.
- RicoElectrico 3y agoLeaves the question of how would they identify a person. I know that information in Apple is quite compartmentalized, but it's an outlier in the FAANG. Surely someone would be a fool to spill the beans just after they've left, but after a sufficiently long period...
- lapcat 3y ago> As a reminder, we had Snowden in NSA who at that time was estimated to have a headcount of 20k or so. Snowden's revelations are infinitely more important to the public interest than some recommendation algorithms, as evidenced by the fact that he had to leave the country and seek permanent political asylum. He didn't do it for fun.
- wmf 3y agoIf you're looking for a whistleblower, how about Frances Haugen?
- orbz 3y agoMaybe there’s just nothing interesting or dark about them no matter how badly people want there to be for controversy sake. That or all the employees who work on the core algorithm are sworn to secrecy in a blood rite cabal with embedded cranial explosive traps if they ever speak or write anything outside of corporate SCIF’s.
- slater 3y agoThanks for the reminder, and yeah, duhhhhhh. People actually enjoy keeping their livelihoods. Duh right back atcha.