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Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Post by catchnear4321 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #45
feverzsj wrote: post #27

So he was already CEO/CTO of 2 China companies while still working in google. And these information are publicly available right after he registering them. Seems a management disaster of google.

Not agreeing or disagreeing, but what’s the remedy? To regularly scour sources for information on tens of thousands of employees and parse actionable meaning from the data? Maybe someone can make a horrible start-up that does this as a service.

making vast amounts of scraped data accessible, almost like search.

you’re right, the big names probably can’t handle that on their own.

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Post by seneca »

jojobas wrote: post #38
krona wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question: Can we presume he knew he was doing something wrong?

A Chinese national helping his country not fall behind in what's perceived as an existential race? Wrong?

Yes, from his perspective it's likely morally right, but he was very likely aware it is illegal in the US. This nicely highlights a difficulty with globalism.

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Post by xienze »

Thorrez wrote: post #47
feverzsj wrote: post #27

So he was already CEO/CTO of 2 China companies while still working in google. And these information are publicly available right after he registering them. Seems a management disaster of google.

You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? Disclosure: I work at Google.

Presumably for such a high profile position a simple um, Google of the person, checking LinkedIn, or a standard background check would reveal this.

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Post by nonethewiser »

lelanthran wrote: post #49
nonethewiser wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The US vastly benefit from Chinese immigration and most Chinese aren’t spies. However, it’s interesting to notice the damage one person can have, arming our most potent adversary with advanced technology. How would you quantify all this? I mean I think we're all on the same page about not wanting to reduce people to their race. That's a good sentiment. But do you have data on any of these claims? When you observe t…

> I mean I think we're all on the same page about not wanting to reduce people to their race. No we aren't. China, at any rate, isn't squeamish about using nationality and race of a person as one of the inputs into profiling them. Until China is onboard with prohibiting race profiling, everyone else who doesn't do the same is at a distinct disadvantage.

> No we aren't. China, at any rate, isn't squeamish about using nationality and race of a person as one of the inputs into profiling them.

This is a fair point, but misses my point. I meant the vast majority of people on this board aren't just racists who dislike certain races. So we don't have to divert all conversation to trying to prove it.

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Post by Aurornis »

rayval wrote: post #43

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This is a parody account. That’s a joke. The next Tweet in the timeline is a joke that the person hasn’t been at standup for a couple days and she doesn’t know why.

I’m amazed that this obvious satire is the top voted comment for so long.

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