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▲ vasac 8 hours ago

Somehow, that wasn't an issue for Eric Schmidt, who was shagging some publicist while he was Google's CEO (and while happily married). Wonder why.

▲_ph_ 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Was she working at Google at that time and reporting directly to Eric Schmidt?

▲kridsdale1 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s how it was for Sergei brin.

▲jeffrallen an hour ago | parent [-]

And Andy Rubin. At least he got fired though.

▲estearum 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For one, Schmidt left Google in 2011. Cultural acceptance of fucking subordinates has changed a lot since then.

▲vasac 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Considering that extramarital escapades didn't prevent the current US president from being elected twice - and quite recently at that - I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with cultural acceptance.

▲estearum 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You're "pretty sure" that you can isolate causality in multicausal and overdetermined systems by pointing to a few extreme examples?

I'm jealous!

▲vasac 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I can dumb it down even further for you.

▲estearum 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, please do!

Seems like a real analytical breakthrough that I'd legitimately love to learn more about.