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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by waqf on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:06PM (#14216166)
For nine-figure fraud? What would you propose instead?

(It's fraud when you take advantage by ignoring the established legal rules that everyone else is playing by, however suboptimal those rules are.)

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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by hyperbovine on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:48PM (#14216338)
Exactly. People routinely get jail time for three orders of magnitude less fraud.
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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by ryandrake on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:13AM (#14217004)
Someone went to prison for stealing $31 in candy bars [1]. At least he only got 2 years: he faced life in prison.

1: http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2016/07/candy_thief_an...

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