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+1, this place has (mostly) managed to retain what made it special despite becoming more mainstream due the popularity of the SWE career in the last decade.

Never thought I'd see a nymph on a VC website.

IANAL but I'd assume this doesn't apply to them.

I don't think it's comparable to Theranos. He took over a company w/a heavily (but still in a pre launch) product in its "beta" phase and was chosen for an obvious reason (get the tech into cars). He doesn't have the technical chops to understand the tech enough to know whether it's ready for prime-time or not aside from looking at metrics some of his engineering subordinates gave him.

Elizabeth Holmes didn't have a product which functioned like she claimed at all (nothing compared to the tech Waymo has already developed)... She assumed w/enough effort her ideas would eventually come to fruition, so she lied about the progress her company had made so gullible investors would fork over $$. Waymo has non-tech people trying to sell a tech which is still in development, they've made an (incorrect) assumption about when it'll be ready, as I doubt anyone really thinks it's flat out impossible... just really difficult.

I agree, it's strange to axe the type of person they'd need to rollout the tech, unless the tech itself just isn't going to be ready soon at all vs. giving him a different role? I wonder how long the project of "L4/L5 autonomous vehicles on today's roads" would have to meander on for before the Alphabet leadership decides to axe it or radically change to scope would/will be?

Not saying it ought not to be that way, but the EU isn't known for their bureaucratic efficiency.

Most people have bandwidth caps AT HOME w/landlines. Large swathes of the country don't have 4G. Is 4K content on our phones really going to matter?

Perhaps... We could increase the amount of seats at colleges instead?

Not to be crass... but how about multiple the fine by 10 if one believes it's not punitive enough?

An ethnically homogenous area doesn't always imply it's a ghetto though?

"beat"? Is there a competition to become the most Orwellian state before the other?

A restaurant which doesn't even cook the food for you!

Usually those are vague enough to where they can axe you for nearly anything no?

It's not like said contractors get paid more anywhere else? While the situation those folks from the article in is horrible, Facebook isn't a charity.

We still have 3 more years of the current administration, that's an eternity (figuratively) in politics. Predicting who will be a legitimate contender at this point is a fool's errand.