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Re:Google Creates Blockchain Unit, Hires New ‘Founding Leader’ by progbits on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:55AM (#30026227)
But why keep them if they are going to be doing useless work? In the hopes they get bored and move internally to different project?
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Re:Google Creates Blockchain Unit, Hires New ‘Founding Leader’ by xnx on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:19PM (#30026621)
Sometimes having someone do useless work for you is better than having them do useful work for a competitors.
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Re:Google Creates Blockchain Unit, Hires New ‘Founding Leader’ by uvdn7 on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:03PM (#30026357)
It’s not entirely useless. It costs big companies little to make this type of investments to avoid a potential big miss longer term (think of IBM, Nokia, etc.) Big companies are paranoid about missing the next big thing, so it makes sense to invest in a lot of things.
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