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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by busterarm on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:09PM (#25304851)
Given the number of people I know who privately think that she resigned rather than got fired and similarly won't speak out (there's tons of internal threads talking about her being fired from what I can tell here), I think it actually is a small percentage.
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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by ClumsyPilot on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:19PM (#25305001)
> "think that she resigned rather than got fired"

Thats objectively one way or the other - it's not a matter of opinion.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by busterarm on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:48PM (#25305419)
I agree with you: When you say "do X or I quit", that's resigning and not being fired.

There's still a ton of people, including her, who think that she was fired. The amount of pushback from those folks for saying that she resigned has silenced a lot of people, from what I've seen.

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