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> because the original strain was unnatural, later strains would be less problematic as the virus reverted to its true (less problematic) nature

Is it possible for someone to speed up this process in a lab somewhere, like South Africa, and release the less problematic version to the public to achieve the herd immunity quicker?

You might have had 20 years of experience building products that don't need to scale for millions of concurrent users, if you consider all "purely internal architectural changes" to be lower priority than the customer facing work just because it's purely internal. And the Google guy might have tried to spend time scaling a product that will have five concurrent users, because "this is Google" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI). It's all about perspective, and CEO thought the other perspective was more valuable.

BOBODDY. The first B stands for Biznus.

> Game needs to get the playerbase first, be interesting and competitive in the long run second and then...

Ain't nobody got time for dat. Push the new game out, organize two tournaments, recycle the game into the next iteration... Rinse and repeat.

> I worked an office gig one time where my boss just stopped telling us what to do. We were just supposed to "know." For some people, this probably sounds amazing right? No corporate politics. No bullshit meetings. Just do whatever you feel like! It was great for half a heartbeat but then it turned into "Lord of the Flies" ... the inmates running the asylum sort of thing.

I see someone has worked at Valve.

Oh no, they have a plan to create a plan for layoffs, but as of right now there is no plan to layoff employees.

> Ask people if they like it when prosecutors charge a guy with 30 crimes for committing one act of armed robbery

This is usually resolved by not adding the jail times for the crimes, but by doing MAX(a, b, ...) on them. Prosecutors will suddenly only care about the most important ones.

> Are college students taking their student loans and blowing it on "lavish lifestyles"?

Colleges certainly do. There is no market economy in giving out loans but yet there are no price and quality controls on the receiving end of the money.

This might be a weird question, but if you are American, do you think Biden is a smart man with motives beyond his own gain? Does he really try to make USA better and works for the common person?

You don’t understand, they are “nazi” because they are nationalists and support their country. So Russian nazis are going to attack Ukrainian nazis do “denazificate” them.

You can add COINTELPRO to the list as well.

> You need to compensate Qualcomm for a pile of lost sales from people not getting new phones.

Why would people continue to buy phones with Qualcomm chips? The fact that my 4th gen iPad still works and my mom uses it to watch youtube and browse internet is one of the top 3 reasons I would pay a bit extra for Apple devices.

Our whole existence is a religious subject. And everything we do while we exist falls under it. Also no, it does not have to be organized to be a religion.

I’ll give you one more: is there any reason to think CIA hasn’t infiltrated HN comments right now?

> The American "left" is soft right wing.

If by being "right wing" you mean strong authoritarianism and Mussolini-like fascism, then yes, American 'left' is right wing.

However, if right wing for you are conservative values, like family, independence, free speech, personal responsibility, and "judging by the content of the character, not the color of the skin" then American left is nowhere near the soft right position on any of those things. They are not even close to center.

> Yes you can memorize an answer here, and the implementation of a binary tree - I think most people just do that.

If you are talking about a self-balancing binary search tree, then, yeah, most people will have to memorize the implementation, as it would take much more than an hour to implement correctly. But if you are talking about plan binary trees, most good engineers will be able to write a simple enough implementation for the interview in a couple of minutes. And it won't be from memory, it will come from _understanding_ of how the binary tree is structured. The beauty here is that there is no need to memorize the implementation, as it is much easier to remember the definition of a tree and then write an implementation based on that.

> why can they keep charging so much tuition

Because everyone keeps paying so much tuition. Why does _everyone_ can afford to pay so much is another question worth exploring.

> I assume that by Odessa you don't mean the capital of Ukraine

Odessa is not and was never the capital of Ukraine.

> I believe G has something like this

It does. And until the service meets the criteria, SWEs on the project are actually partially playing the SRE roles under the guidance of the SRE org.

> didn't find anything with a quick google

Didn't you read the main article? Why are you still trying to find things that is damaging to the political establishment through google?

What do you expect to see from that data alone? How much immunity and for how long the actual covid infection provides?

> Moderna was approved on December 18, 2020

Moderna was not "approved" on December 18. Your own source says it was "authorized for emergency use".

> If you are Apple, even though EARN IT failed... you know where Washington's heart lies.

If you are IG Farben, you know where Berlin's heart lies...

> What is so hostile about the previous post ?

We have sensed irony and/or sarcasm in your post, thus it was rightly deemed hostile by the HN post monitors. Please make an attempt to be more polite next time, especially when communicating with high karma individuals.

1 year in Cali out of 3 years after grant before vest = 33%

1 year in Cali out of 4 years after grant before vest = 25%

Membership-based shops and clubs seem to work much better than 'everyone can come' scheme. Even at Google the maker spaces require an intro class, and an approval from one of the managing members. And one can make a case that a googler is expected to be a more responsible person than a random member of the elite no-car community.

> should buy more

As if the resources are infinite.

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!

360 view feels like the inside of the 1 Hacker Way.

A very interesting bit of trivia: Soviet school math curriculum reform was conducted in the 60s under the leadership of Andrey Kolmogorov. Some of you may be familiar with his works, especially the Kolmogorov complexity.

> Being both unvaxed and unmasked is unnecessarily reckless toward others

Mandating an unapproved novel 'vaccine' while removing all responsibility from the manufacturers for the side effects is extremely reckless toward others.