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Comment by dannylandau | Hacker News Reader

Theranos is probably many things, but bringing criminal charges might be going to far. From 20,000 feet, it looks like an ambitious girl out of Stanford that got way ahead of herself and her abilities. This Company should be allowed to quietly recede into the sunset.

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That's not how business works though, especially when you tell investors one story and are actually performing another.

Theranos might have had the opportunity to quietly go away if the CEO were not apparently dead set on being dragged out of the picture kicking and screaming. Short of that, Holmes seems hell bent on proving she really completely deserves to be worth $10B and don't let the facts confuse you, her mind is made up.

Much of the sympathy I initially had for her has dissipated.

She's 32, a decade out of college, try again with a little less sexism.

She's been at Theranos for 13 years. She was quite young when her parents set it up for her.

Girl? It's outrageous that you would deny her agency!

And committed fraud rather than admit they were in over their heads.

+1 and were playing games with peoples' health in an arguably more egregious manner than even soylent.

Too far? Everyone in a position to know the true state of Theranos should be publicly hanged for attempting to defraud the American Government, and by extension, the American people themselves.

The fact that the fraud was related to healthcare should earn them all short ropes.

You and my late father would have gotten along. His theory was that the death penalty should involve hanging people and re-using the same rope to keep it cheap. When it finally breaks, commute that individual's sentence and get a new rope to continue on with the next person.

There's an episode of "Murdoch's Mysteries" about the process of hanging a man. The rope was consistently reused, it was nearly as thick as your wrist. Too short and the man would strangle, too long and he would be decapitated.

I don't think my father actually knew that. I think he was just trying to be nasty/snarky.

Things learned talking to people in online forums...

I find it kind of interesting that there was a whole process/methodology behind it that modern society has forgotten.

We have forgotten tons -- like how the Romans made ice in the desert, Greek fire and how to bend mother of pearl to clad statues -- yet imagine ourselves superior in every way.

The Romans made ice in the desert by leaving a bucket of water out overnight where temperatures drop below freezing, which deserts do.

You're a fucking tough guy.

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