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by Balgair 3384 days ago
Well, the greyball program took some real coding and testing out to implement as it was reported. From the point of view of 'if you see one cockroach scurry on the floor, your walls infested with them' then we can make an educated assumption that there are more 'secret' projects they may be working on to further obstruct justice (highly dependent on location). The question is then: How many coders work on the core app, how many worked on the greyball section, how many worked on the self-driving cars (auto-automobile is maybe a better term for these vehicles, but not by much), how many does that leave left? Take that answer, assume that the greyball is average the number of coders on a 'secret' project (very very dubious to do this, but what other data do you have?), and then you have an estimate on the number of other 'secret' projects they have going on and what their abilities are as compared to your cadre of coders. Then try and steal them if they are doing better than your folks, now is a good time to invest in their coders before the crash and rush for them happens.