Google Engineers Organizing a Walk Out to Protest the Protection of Andy Rubin

Re:Google Engineers Organizing a Walk Out to Protest the Pro... by leereeves on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:53PM (#18333913)

Now you're making a different argument. Yes, there are costs involved in replacing employees, and there are costs involved in allowing employees to walk out or refuse to work on certain projects. Naturally Google will weigh those costs.

But earlier you claimed they were "the only ones" capable, and that I wanted to abridge their freedom of association. I disagreed with both those statements.

Now that you've restricted your position to acknowledging a reasonable cost/benefit tradeoff for Google, I agree.

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Re:Google Engineers Organizing a Walk Out to Protest the Pro... by notacoward on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:55AM (#18335655)

> earlier you claimed they were "the only ones" capable

No, I claimed that they were the only ones capable of running the systems without significant interruption. Others can be trained up, but it would take months and there would be some failures along the way. You're the one whose argument has been changing, since you started with the presumption that strikes' effectiveness relies on explicitly excluding others (e.g. via law or force).

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