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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.

Really?? Source please! /s

Call me a cynic, but I get the feeling this IPO is more of an early investor/founder cash out?

Is being a "WOW killer" worth it anymore? Activision doesn't even release the subscription numbers anymore (most likely because they've fallen so much since WotLK).

I know SC initial funding is unprecedented, but is taking out what amounts to a line of credit really that uncommon? It doesn't necessarily mean the initial 150M has dried up -> thus the sky just may not be falling?

Wall St. would punish them for raising salaries.

It was Newark, and the half donation went to Charter Schools and consultants. [1]

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-failed-100-m...

Perhaps the value is the fact a central bank can't obliterate the value of the currency based on a whim, using a bunch of esoteric economic logic to justify such policies?

There was a financial incentive to look the other way. That doesn't exist in this case.

There's also no reason you can't have borders indefinitely. Open borders have the draw backs of depressing wages. In an era where income-inequality is one of the top issues in the political debate, this is an area that's a non-starter until it can be done in a way that won't exacerbate said issue.

Not exactly a surprise, if the polls were wrong this time, they'd have needed to be off by nearly ~15 points in both directions. This is the first big win neo-liberalism has had in a short-while. Time will tell if it was due to Macron being a good candidate or Marie-la-penn (sp?) turning people off.

Or when you do discuss/question it, people try to paint you as a quack.

Lack of available competition and bio patents.

I suspect they'll beat around the issue. Most of the West's pertinent military conflicts are in the Middle East. Turkey's position makes it an extremely valuable ally and abdicating a significant strategic on moral grounds makes no military sense.

Poor guy... he only made $5.2 million...?

> said Gerard Lewis, Comcast's chief privacy officer.

I didn't know Chief Privacy Officers were a thing. When did this start?