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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by Spivak on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:41PM (#46441336)
You can still judge them evil even if the parent was accurate as to the motivations for their actions. Villains are more interesting when they're sympathetic.

You're in the planning meeting discussing this feature, you ask "Hey, are we allowed to do this? I thought stand downs were contractural." and your PM says yes, they got the okay from legal. Now what do you do?

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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by bryan_w on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:07AM (#46441492)
> they got the okay from legal.

Now that I could definitely see happening. I would also want that in writing somewhere.

I guess discovery for the impending lawsuits should be very interesting

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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by rectang on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:28AM (#46441650)
It’s easy, looking at the current state of affairs, to conclude that ethical behavior is incompatible with capitalist ambition. One might still choose to be ethical nonetheless, but with the understanding that you will be overtaken by those who have made a different choice.
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