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		fuzz4lyfe on Sept 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber lays off 435 people Preventing engineers who are working on it from working at the competition?

echelon on Sept 10, 2019 [–]

That's pretty stupid. If this was truly their strategy, they're just raising everyone's costs. They can't out-compete Google at this game.

TheSpiceIsLife on Sept 11, 2019 | [–]

Google has a chat app?

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