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		bpiche on May 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI I just want to point out that you have noted this falsehood like five times in this thread already. Noncompetes have been unenforceable in California since 2008, and for over a month federally.

astrange on May 15, 2024 [–]

Noncompetes have been illegal in CA for much longer than that. It is literally the reason Silicon Valley exists; Fairchild couldn't enforce theirs.

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