It seems inconsistent to punish technologists like Levandowski when we don't punish bankers, CEOs, and polluters with the the same enthusiasm.
It's not a tech thing. It's that Levandowski stole from billionaires and wasn't a billionaire himself.
Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
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Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#32Much more interesting to me is that the article says "he will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed." and "With no end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, it is possible that Levandowski’s latest lawsuit will be resolved before he even reports to jail."
A courtesy not afforded to the largely not-rich, not-white general prison population. I don't think Levandowski should be treated worse, just noting it would be nice if less privileged prisoners were treated as humanely.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#33More than the 18 month prison sentence, it would have been far better to punish him with life-long red mark on his career to never be able to found, or run a company and never be able to buy stock or any kind of a position in any company. Seems like 18 months will be spent plotting his next big thing and it’s rinse and repeat. Also put an upper limit to his wealth. Say total : $40K. And cancel his passport.
He was already sued into oblivion. What's left will be taken by the lawyers. He'll be lucky to have 500k - 5million after all this is said and done, and it will be very difficult for him to find employment into the future.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite a few. Levandowski is in California, where they're making a pretty big effort to get nonviolent criminals out of the prison system.
It blows my mind that there are protestors at San Quentin agitating for prisoners to be released into the public when the prison is one of the biggest cohorts of COVID in the entire region. They literally let people walk out of prison and get on a public bus, after spendings months in close quarters amidst the worst outbreak in the Bay Area.
They should be denied justice because that very lack of justice made them vulnerable to infection? What a dystopic catch-22.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
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You mean "confused." I think the supplier knew exactly what was happening and decided to let the cat out of the bag.
I'd agree with you, if I hadn't worked adjacent to the financial industry for a bit. There are a lot of companies with liberty in the name (not even just US based), and I've mixed some up, even on technical issues. Obviously the "name" isn't the issue, or maybe it is, it's possible they worked with this person in the past, and it never occurred to them to check the current employer, because it usually doesn't change…
Fun historical fact, it's from this aphorism that the proverb "measure twice cut once" comes from, because confusion can be supplanted by repetition.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trump's former lawyer-fixer Michael Cohen: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/michael-cohen-will-b...
Wow, downvotes. Just stating a fact in response to the question. (would be nice if someone commented as to why the downvotes). EDIT: More downvotes, I considered deleting this to stop them, but that wouldn't contribute to the discussion.
orange man bad
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#37Much more interesting to me is that the article says "he will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed." and "With no end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, it is possible that Levandowski’s latest lawsuit will be resolved before he even reports to jail."
A courtesy not afforded to the largely not-rich, not-white general prison population. I don't think Levandowski should be treated worse, just noting it would be nice if less privileged prisoners were treated as humanely.
No, the state of California is letting a ton of criminals out of prison. I don’t think they have to finish serving their time either.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#38Much more interesting to me is that the article says "he will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed." and "With no end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, it is possible that Levandowski’s latest lawsuit will be resolved before he even reports to jail."
A courtesy not afforded to the largely not-rich, not-white general prison population. I don't think Levandowski should be treated worse, just noting it would be nice if less privileged prisoners were treated as humanely.
Totally agree. I don't like it when the responses are "they should rot in prison" because so many people have done less and been in prison forever. We need to severely reduce sentencing in this country - across the board - for everyone, especially the minorities and impoverished that have borne the brunt of our ridiculous school to prison pipeline.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite a few. Levandowski is in California, where they're making a pretty big effort to get nonviolent criminals out of the prison system.
It blows my mind that there are protestors at San Quentin agitating for prisoners to be released into the public when the prison is one of the biggest cohorts of COVID in the entire region. They literally let people walk out of prison and get on a public bus, after spendings months in close quarters amidst the worst outbreak in the Bay Area.
It's called compassion. Imagine you catch a dangerous virus, and you are in a place where you have literally zero agency.
It's as if you are assuming people who commit crimes, or even people who get sent to jail (they are not a perfect venn diagram) aren't empathetic human beings.
Most people in prison don't want to randomly infect and kill people. Most of them do not want to hurt families, or friends. Most of them don't even want to talk or engage with anyone, and here you are, saying they should stay in a cage, accept their fate, get sick because a guard spits on them, and reflect about how they are serving time for selling cannabis, a now legal substance.
There are people who are intentionally not wearing masks, and you are assuming people leaving prison will not actively try to protect themselves and others, think about that.
Also, that they are put on busses is what the state is doing, not the former prisoners. They could do many other things to mitigate risk, and it's not on the prisoners, who have no money, or agency to have responsibility for that.
Re: Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
#40Much more interesting to me is that the article says "he will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed." and "With no end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, it is possible that Levandowski’s latest lawsuit will be resolved before he even reports to jail."
Who said money can’t literally buy a get out of jail card?
When you say "literally" do you mean to imply he literally paid someone? That's quite implausible.