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Came here to read about insiders' objections to a deal with DOD. Nothing?
Employees that create problems for a company usually find themselves outside the company one way or another.
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
Because bribes won't give themselves. Obvious sarcasm, but there's a reason why the government really sucks at accomplishing anything technically elaborate: they simply don't care if it's any good, nor do they care how much it costs or how long it takes. It's not their money or their property. If it does well, nobody will see an extra dime. If it sucks, nobody will get fired. That's how you get $5K screwdrivers and $…
A bit off topic: what are these? Mind providing more details or sources?
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Because bribes won't give themselves. Obvious sarcasm, but there's a reason why the government really sucks at accomplishing anything technically elaborate: they simply don't care if it's any good, nor do they care how much it costs or how long it takes. It's not their money or their property. If it does well, nobody will see an extra dime. If it sucks, nobody will get fired. That's how you get $5K screwdrivers and $…
> That's how you get $5K screwdrivers and $30K toilet seats, and half a million dollar aircraft carrier toilet flushes. A bit off topic: what are these? Mind providing more details or sources?
>> However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian. So a single digit Million contract? How is that news at Google scale?
It’s a little interesting because they backed out of the Jedi contract earlier for ethical concerns.
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
Came here to read about insiders' objections to a deal with DOD. Nothing?
I would assume the loudest voices have already been driven out, given several of the protesters from last year claim they were retaliated against by management. Employees that create problems for a company usually find themselves outside the company one way or another.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would assume the loudest voices have already been driven out, given several of the protesters from last year claim they were retaliated against by management. Employees that create problems for a company usually find themselves outside the company one way or another.
I had assumed that there were many hundreds if not thousands of employees that would object. Maybe not--perhaps there were just a relatively small number making a lot of noise in the press.