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“An alliance between 3Com and Huawei was attractive to both sides. Huawei would get the immediate legal protection of 3Com’s deep patent portfolio; 3Com would get Huawei’s lower production costs and its connections to the vast China market. Soon after the two announced their joint venture, called H3C, 3Com’s lawyers filed a motion to intervene in the Cisco case, calling 3Com an interested party.”

--- Eva Dou. “House of Huawei.”

“Ren told his trusted deputy, Guo Ping, who was now Huawei’s executive vice president, to get to the US as quickly as he could. Ren invoked the fable of ancient Chinese military general Han Xin*, who had accepted the humiliation of crawling between another man’s legs to prevent a deadly fight.”

* The fable of General Han Xin’s humiliation, known as "crawling between the legs" (胯下之辱), tells of a young, poor Han Xin being challenged by a bully in his hometown of Huaiyin to either kill him or crawl through his legs. Choosing to endure this shame rather than waste his life on a petty killing, Han Xin crawled through, later becoming a renowned military strategist and rewarding the man for testing his resolve.

Hence it follows, 
             that the human mind 
is part of the infinite 
             intellect of God; 

thus when we say, that 
           the human mind perceives this or that, 
                     we make the assertion, that 
God has this or that idea, 

not in so far as he is infinite, 
                           but 
in so far as he is 
              displayed through the nature of the human mind, 
or in so far as 

he constitutes the essence 
                 of the human mind; 

and when we say that 
             God has this or that idea, 
not only in so far as 
           he constitutes the essence of the human mind, 

but also in so far as 
           he, simultaneously with the human mind, 
                       has the further idea of another thing, 

we assert that 
the human mind perceives a thing 
           in part or inadequately.


--- Spinoza, The Ethics. Part II, Prop XI, Corollary. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#chap02

A decline in demand for middle-skilled work -- a phenomenon dubbed “job polarization,” because more positions are concentrated at the higher and lower ends -- has played a role in keeping prime-age men out of the job market, Didem Tuzemen, an economist at the Kansas City Fed, wrote in the paper released this week. Without job polarization, Tuzemen estimated that 1.9 million more prime-age men would have been employed in 2016.

Henley and Clark implemented this program of ephemeral and encrypted communications for the express purpose of destroying evidence of illegal or unethical practices to avoid discovery in actual or potential litigation. The Wickr application uses robust encryption which prevents the information from being viewed by anyone except the intended recipient, but more importantly, programs messages to self-destruct in a matter of seconds to no longer than six days. Consequently, Uber employees cannot be compelled to produce records of their chat conversations because no record is retained.
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By storing this data on non-attributable devices, Uber believed it would avoid detection and never be subject to legal discovery. This is because a standard preservation of evidence order typically focused on Uber work laptops, Uber networks, and Uber mobile devices. Non- attributable devices were deemed as not reasonably subsumed by any such preservation order and the team could, and did, "legally" (not so) dispose of any evidence or documentation held on these devices in the intervening period before knowledge of the devices' existence could be uncovered.
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Clark said that Uber needed to "shroud these work products in attorney-client privilege." Accordingly, Clark instructed Jacobs himself and others to address all emails on sensitive intelligence collection to him and ensure the emails were marked as "ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL," to mark any work product as "DRAFT" regardless of its actual status, and, on every communication, to specifically ask a question or request legal advice on some issue-even if no legal advice was needed or warranted. Likewise, he advised that Jacobs and others that they should communicate almost exclusively via phone, video teleconference ("Zoom"), or via the Wickr app, in that order of preference based on the record and audit trail each communications medium creates. Clark explained that the intent was to prevent disclosure of such communications if Jacobs was ever put on legal hold or his communications were ever subject to a preservation of evidence order.