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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by dylanjermiah on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:55AM (#9603588)
How is hiring (poaching isn't accurate whatsoever) talented people to aid in advancing technologies which will save millions of lives and billions of dollars 'sleazy'? 'That is what the headlines of the last year describe', it isn't wise to analyse a situation based on press headlines.
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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by exo762 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @05:07AM (#9603618)
You are writing as if the topic of group's research has changed. It has not. Actually those people were working for humanity as whole. Now they are working for Uber.

I agree that this situation hard to avoid, and its hard to blame Uber for being a better employer then public but still, there is nothing to celebrate about the fact that CMU got stripped of its research lab and that the tech will land in this company's sleazy hands.

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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by dylanjermiah on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @05:37AM (#9603687)
Uber will not exist if people don't use it. Uber is providing a service in 300+ cities, and over a million people per day choose use it. In my assessment the engineers work has a greater likelihood of existing being part of Uber. Why are they sleazy?
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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by shiven on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @07:17AM (#9603979)
Well, the public needs to pony up a competitive remuneration + funding package to retain these guys at CMU. At least, that's what would happen in a true free market.
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