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by burner890 9y ago
I personally know engineers at Google who drink very heavily and do drugs including ketamine, coke, shrooms and acid.
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by burner890 9y ago
Much like what we have seen with the opioid epidemic I suspect that people will pay more attention to stories about well-educated, affluent (read white) members of the upper middle class suffering from drug abuse. If the end result is more
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by burner890 9y ago
I'm in my 20s and have worked as an engineer at a top tech company for over a year. I've seen a moderate amount of drug use during that time. I wouldn't characterize it as ubiquitous by any means, but it also isn't that
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by burner890 9y ago
The equity he received from Otto's acquisition was also clawed back because he was fired with cause. He ended up with nothing from Uber.
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by burner890 9y ago
There is no evidence Uber has any trade secrets from Waymo that they would have to stop using. That was why Google settled. If Uber did have any trade secrets they would have lost the case outright.
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by burner890 9y ago
You do toss someone a couple hundred million in private equity for an immediate end to the damage to the company's brand, legal fees and recruiting efforts. If Uber was in any real jeopardy of being found liable here they would have
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by burner890 9y ago
That amount of money is a rounding error to Google, especially since it's in the form of private equity issued by a company they already have a stake in worth billions. Google probably negotiated for the equity to be included in the se
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by burner890 9y ago
Anyone who thinks this is a loss for Uber doesn't know what was at stake in this case. At one point an injunction against Uber's self-driving division was on the table. If that were still any sort of possibility Uber would have en