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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.
How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?
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I was talking about his Google compensation which was reported to be approximately 170 million
If it's any consolation: the more money you have, the more painful a jail sentence, even a short one like this, is, because the opportunity cost is massive .
Some people end up with their kids sexually abused in foster care because they had to spend a few months in prison. Is the reduction in marginal earnings for wealthy people comparable, really?
Oh. I hadn't been following the story and had assumed somebody was facing justice over the woman killed by Uber's unsafe self-driving car experiment. ... How silly of me.
You mean the one who was jaywalking and wasn't visible until a split second before she was tragically killed? Do we afford the same condolences to the tens of thousands of other traffic victims?
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Pretty sure anyone could hire a few experts to duplicate the flavor of Coke exactly. Their moat is branding, partnerships and a huge distribution network, not some "secret recipe".
I think Coke's moat (in addition to branding) is their use of coca leaves, basically impossible for any other company to source legally (at least in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_leaf
How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?
How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?
Trump's former lawyer-fixer Michael Cohen: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/michael-cohen-will-b...
How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?
Quite a few. Levandowski is in California, where they're making a pretty big effort to get nonviolent criminals out of the prison system.
OTOH, both delays in prison sentences and releases of current prisoners to home confinement are not uncommon due to COVID-19 in the federal system right now.
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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.