wewbull

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not a lawful authority.

He was flight side at the airport. So either:

  • ...they're not subject to US law, and it's fair to search his possessions without a warrant. In which case he's also not subject to US law so destruction of evidence is fair game.
  • ...everyone is subject to US law and it's an illegal search.
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It is how it works inside the united states. It's just they claim that because he was on the flight side of the airport, he wasn't inside the US.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 33 points 1 month ago

Oh, because they are outside US borders they claim not to need a warrant, but that doesn't stop them using US law to prosecute him though.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're obviously gifted engineers there, but....

They choose to work for him. I don't like the idea of people getting stinking rich off that life choice.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

If they fire him, it's got a chance.

They've squandered their lead on not delivering stupid tech, whilst ignoring the cars. If they got a CEO that refocused on the cars I think there's still something there.

Everything to do with him is turning to shit though.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Not SpaceX so far. Down to half it's high point. It's only been a public stock 6(?) weeks. Seems to be averaging a few dollars negative each day with no apparent floor.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Most of these "trapped" people stop searching for a job.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When you're in a "need a job" situation, of course you take anything you can. If you end up at Oracle you don't stop looking. You take their money until you find something better.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I think this layout is 100% about S&P downgrading Oracle's credit rating to one step above junk. They're on the hook for the WB acquisition and the data centre build out for OpenAI, both of which look hugely negative. Wisconsin (data centre location) just sent the a bill for $7B because they don't trust oracle to pay the future costs to the state the development would incur.

With no credit rating, and not much liquid cash all they can do is cut costs. Hence layoff.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not shitty enough to completely leave your ethics at the door. You might need to take a little less pay, or work on something less interesting (although we're talking about Oracle here).

Somebody who landed a job at Oracle had options. That is until today. Now they have 21,000 other people to compete with.

It's the people somewhere like Nvidia I have some empathy for. They thought they were building gaming tech and they've ended up building the apocalypse.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

...and DGX Spark.

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