I'd rather not I don't think many other people were party to some of the things I heard them describe that they personally witnessed. It'd probably be very easy to figure out who they were. This is all from the 2008-2013 era.
There tons of existing stories of partying, sex and coke. Spying on private profiles, etc. Would your stories add something new or be along the same lines of what's out there?
I don't know--we're talking about the personal, moral character of the leader of this huge company. A direct quote from the guy, infamous as it is, is at least on-topic.
That may have been true the first thousand times it was repeated, but at a certain point these things become mechanical. That's not interesting in HN's sense of the word—and doubly so for the combo of mechanical+indignant.
IIRC my biology lessons in high school, viruses mutate in order to escape from vaccines. Just like mosquitoes mutate and adapted to DDT, we created new chemicals and then mosquitoes adapted to them, under evolutionary pressure.
So vaccinated populations are creating the pressure on the virus to mutate. And un-vaccinated population may get effected (irrespective of which version of virus they encounter at the time)..
Viruses don't mutate to escape anything, evolution doesn't work that way. Viruses have short generation times and they replicate extraordinarily fast compared to what humans see in their lifetimes. Their fast replication allows the virus to experience mutations at a massive scale and mutations that increase its survival become dominent over time.
Those mutations absolutely require an unvaccinated population to thrive but more importantly, a population with a laissez fair attitude that allows the mutation to spread to other humans. If you do everything in your power to cut down the transmission and vaccinate yourself, we could have defeated this thing.
Oh man, it's tough to answer this one well. I just counted up the books I've worked through on my shelf. After college, I've gone through about 15 completely, and partially worked through another 15 or so. Plus a couple reference texts that have been handy. Plus a huge number of papers. They take up nearly twice the space my old college texts do, which is kind of wild to look back on!
Are you curious about anything in particular? Or if you're just wondering what kind of books I'm talking about, highlights include CLRS, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Mostly Harmless Econometrics, and Characters & Viewpoint. Next up on my list are more creative writing books and a couple theoretical stats books (I'm working towards a book on semiparametrics, but first need a better foundation to follow a book I've been recommended).
