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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by NikolaeVarius on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:29PM (#25305145)
How the hell is firing someone who offered an ultimatum not a justifiable reason for accepting said resignation?

By definition the default position was "leave the company"

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by whimsicalism on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:04PM (#25305602)
Yes, they fired her after requiring her to retract her approved paper criticizing some of Google's practices.

I agree with you that it was a "firing", we can debate over whether it was justified, but it wasn't a resignation.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by darkarmani on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:19PM (#25388127)
Didn't she say: "if these things aren't given to me, I will leave the company?"

Isn't that technically resigning if those things aren't given to her?

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