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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by alistproducer2 on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:01AM (#13914770)
This is my assessment as well. People at the c-suite level had to be aware that viability of the company is highly reliant on the magical thinking that they could get to market with driver-less tech before the VC money runs out. The (very real) prospect of complete restart of that research program has likely freed them of the fantasy.

I'm not totally discounting the PR issues as a partial cause of the exits. As a c-level employee, you (more than most hires) have to answer for rotten company culture. I also, however, think both issue (lawsuit and PR issues) make it untenable for the current batch of executives to stay on.

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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by alrs on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:02PM (#13915752)
I was in an elevator once, and overheard this conversation:

"Yeah, computers don't do that yet. Don't worry, you just wait for awhile, and eventually they do. That's how technology works."

I saw red.

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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by __abc on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:34PM (#13916034)
Why did you see red?
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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by alrs on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:10PM (#13916808)
Because it shows a complete disregard for what engineers do, and reduces our work to something akin to fermentation.
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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by chopin on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:11AM (#13921455)
That shows disregard to what yeast does, though...
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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by zelias on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:47PM (#13916146)
Probably because that kind of statement doesn't pass all the tests
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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by amygdyl on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:36AM (#13920820)
I have to say, I am so stealing that line.

I know exactly who will repeat it, seriously, deadpan as if Q.E.D. shown, if I just encourage them a little...

There is is something about that which smacks of borrowing the internet for a day, for a show and tell....

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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures by ExactoKnight on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:11AM (#13920212)
Was this actually said by someone on Uber's C-suite?
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