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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a very difficult task, as in automotive you pidgenhole yourself in some tech that's specific to this industry and is outdated or not used everywhere else.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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