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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by coding123 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:06PM (#20972600)
It's kinda like asking all the ICE (internal combustion engine) engineers at ford, toyota, nissan, dodge, etc... to stop working on ICE right now because of climate change. Now they can do that, and ask to be re-assigned to EVs, but you can bet they can't replace all those jobs with EV jobs. (at least immediately, maybe in 10 to 20 years)
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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by skrebbel on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:17PM (#20972678)
First off, I'm referring to significantly more unethical stuff than making an ICE.

But even then, the programmers working on ICEs can find a different job in a heartbeat.

I'm not asking the other people working at these, or any, companies to do the same. I'm asking people with top in-demand skills to start considering the ethics of their jobs.

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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @03:44PM (#20973242)
>But even then, the programmers working on ICEs can find a different job in a heartbeat.

Not even close.

As a former embedded software engineer for the automotive sector, moving to another industry was a very difficult task, as in automotive you pidgenhole yourself in some tech that's specific to this industry and is outdated or not used everywhere else.

Thank God I got out in time.

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