Looks like his "Way of the Future" church website is also no longer his: https://www.wayofthefuture.church/
The last time it was online with the original content was in March 2020.
Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
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#282not otto related. why is techcrunch so slow on chromium browsers. to read the article, had to open it in firefox reader mode, private. thousands of requests to just read a wall of text.
i just blocked everything that is not site content related.
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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
The flip-side of this truism is that this point of view is probably healthier for the individual than seeing themselves as helpless victims. Both views are flawed, of course.
> The flip-side of this truism is that this point of view is probably healthier for the individual than seeing themselves as helpless victims.
That's not the flip side of that view, because the socialist view of an exploited proletariat in an advanced industrial democracy is not one of “helpless victims”, but of a powerful force that has the power to reverse the power structure once they realize it exists and act in solidarity against it.
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#284Why is white collar crime punished with such light sentences? I could have got that sentence for house breaking, or shoplifting to the value of $5k. I could get a lot more for dealing drugs to a few friends. Steal $100m and get 18 months, starting when the world is a nicer place. The world really is set up for rich people.
A thug stealing $1k from me would hurt me much more than someone stealing $100m from Google would hurt them.
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#285How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?
A lot of people have been released from jails in the past few months because of Covid.
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HN is mostly white software engineers. Any topic on diversity and minorities and the absolute true "colors" come out.
Yes, white males are extremely privileged in modern day tech hiring
Is that your complaint tech hiring ? How about your family thriving on the shoulders of others and then treating those "others" as inferior. Incarcerating them more, not letting them vote. Your concern is passing am interview. You are oblivious to what countless other youth of color face every day..
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There's a profile of the dude in Wired that goes over what made him so valuable in Larry Page's eyes. https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando... Basically, he was one of the key founders of the project that made Google Maps what it is today (a crown jewel of Google with one of the best cartography datasets), vs what it was originally (better UI to third-party, licensed cartography data). I rememb…
Our GIS department had airphoto and street view on web based arcgis when google rolled out maps. So did our neighbouring cities, with a central site trying to link it all together. They also had, maybe, 10 users outside of our own network a year. Everyone else we’re using the traditional pre-google-maps map websites, in my country krak.dk. I think what google did better was marketing. Then they mapped every WiFi netw…
The hybrid location tracking technology was actually invented by another company that later sued Google:
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's actually clearly correlated. The same underlying ego could've driven both the ambition and rewards he got at Google (after lots of rule-bending) and the brazen theft.
This. You see this behavior in gamblers who make it big and then lose it big, or in revenge trading. Make a lot of money then lose a lot of money. If you are even luckier you might even be net positive at the end. People who know when to quit will usually not have made that much money in the first place because it's a different personality type almost.
One can only guess how much survivorship bias is in there
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No, you cannot compare becoming the world's best self-driving engineer to winning the lottery. This is like becoming Lebron James, it's tremendous talent combined with tremendous commitment.
He was the best self-driving engineer at a time when that was worth $120 million to Google. Is the world's best hydrogen fuel cell engineer getting $120 million bonuses? How about the world's best metallurgist? Historical linguist? You have to be the world's best in a field that could unlock dominance in an enormous potential market that is being actively contested and that one of the world's richest corporations thi…
A valid point. Especially as self driving is nowhere close to bringing in revenue for any of the companies involved. Other than engineers working with batteries or metals which lead to actual billion dollar revenues.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a profile of the dude in Wired that goes over what made him so valuable in Larry Page's eyes. https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando... Basically, he was one of the key founders of the project that made Google Maps what it is today (a crown jewel of Google with one of the best cartography datasets), vs what it was originally (better UI to third-party, licensed cartography data). I rememb…
>Google Maps basically showed the GIS crowd how their work oughta have been done all this time. With a corporate sponsor willing to sink billions of dollars into a project with potentially no upside?
That's how any company should act. If you stop spending money with the risk of no upside, you'll be dead in a decade or two.