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Re:Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Direc... by rtpg on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:56AM (#15371798)
He was doing the right things to hold power, not the right things for society.
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Re:Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Direc... by shub on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:05AM (#15398374)
Well, yeah. Stalin was a monster. He was just good at being a monster.
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Re:Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Direc... by AsyncAwait on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:39AM (#15372215)
That is way too simplistic, he did a lot of terrible stuff, but also some good, it is no question that he pulled Russia from 'backwardness' in terms of literacy for example.
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Re:Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Direc... by tptacek on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:34PM (#15375538)
You mean for those Soviets who survived him?
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Re:Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Direc... by AsyncAwait on Sunday October 01, 2017 @07:07AM (#15377285)
That's why I said that he did a lot of terrible stuff. I absolutely do not excuse the awful stuff he ordered. That does not mean we should now shut all sense of nuance.
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