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Interviews or rounds? Phone screen and 4-5 on-site is pretty reasonable, but that's only two rounds.

Kind of a weird question to ask with how slowly the sea level is rising and how ephemeral relevancy in tech can be. Remember that Facebook and Google are in old Sun and SGI buildings.

I'm not very sympathetic to the religious argument. Islamic leaders are approving vaccines, even if they contain pork gelatin.

It's definitely the wrong tool for public policy. I just think it makes sense when you look at everyone's motivations.

> It's very surprising to me how much support there is in general for outsourcing extremely important, previously personal medical decisions to employers

It's because it's political suicide for any politician who tries. Look at the protests in France. Employers also have the most vested interest in driving up vaccination rates because, for the most part, a drawn-out pandemic hurts businesses.

I've seen a lot of similar shenanigans with tech companies bending over backwards to get hires that aren't white or asian males.

This works if your tax situation is W-2 income and investment income from mainstream investments. You start to run into issues for anything you have to report, like small business income. There are also privacy concerns. Mortgage interest is tax is tax deductible, but should the lender be obligated to tell the government it has a relationship with you? In the case of an employer, it makes more sense because the government is taking what it's owed. For deductions, it's what you're owed, so the onus can be more on the individual.

FDR's track record on individual rights is rather poor. Seizure of gold, censorship, and internment come to mind.

I actually think algorithms are more likely to promote things that either reinforce your existing beliefs or incite outrage.

Didn't they do something close to that with Hugh Weaving to make a lot of CG Agent Smiths?

Would slowing the spread through measures give it more opportunities to accumulate mutations that help it break through immunity and vaccines? I'm somewhat worried prevention efforts led to delta. The virus would have naturally spread fairly quickly, and alternate universe delta would have had to adapt to reinfect people who already have immunity. The delta we have was selected to spread, and now it's facing populations with no immunity.

On one hand, I don't want to put medical professionals through another wave, but on the other, we can't have on and off lockdowns and mask mandates for the next year while we wait for the unvaccinated to either get vaccinated or contract coivd.

I'm serious. Or someone from another country's intelligence group went rogue and leaked it. I doubt Russia would be looking that hard for the leak, and there's no reason to assume the leak was from someone British.

What if it was leaked by Russian intelligence?

I would much rather go on a Mig 29 ride to almost space. It's gotten a proven track record, recovering from an emergency is pretty straightforward, and it's sub-orbital either way. Watching the Virgin Galactic flight, it was obvious it was a glorified vomit comet that gets above the atmosphere.

This is called retargeting. Aside from possible repeat purchases, my guess is that enough people browse a site or never complete their checkout that advertisers are happy to take the chance that 50% of people who see the ad might no longer be interested because that's still higher interest than you can get from almost any other channel.

We're headed towards that, anyway, but don't get too excited for Pfizer. The mRNA vaccines are selling for $15-$20 per dose, but flu shots are $2. There's a competitor in the market, and it's a new technology, so prices will drop fast.

There also wasn't a coordinated half-assed effort to stop the Spanish Flu.

What's awkward with covid right now is that even strong vaccination efforts (Israel, large US cities) will only hit 70%, rural areas worse, and developing countries at 15%. Suppressing covid over the past year means we now have a more transmissible, more deadly strain, the number of countries that successfully contained it is starting to look like New Zealand, and, my guess, masks won't be enough to stop it, this time, at least to a degree that doesn't severely limit society.

If you're a developed country swimming in vaccines like the US, do you let the delta strain go for it? Drawing it out with lockdows only makes the vaccine less effective, and once you lock down, it becomes clear there is no exist strategy. What if you're a large city with 80% vaccination rates? Will there be anger over preventable lockdowns? What if you're facing a recall election?

What if you're Europe, have moderate vaccine coverage, but likely won't be able to vaccinate to herd immunity for the same reasons as the US?

In hindsight, knowing the virus would be 2.5x worse in a year and a half and half your population would have no interest in the vaccine, should you have let it spread?

It's not Saudi Arabia, but the quote from another Arab state,

> My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel

The article wasn't really about working at Facebook. Except for mentioning things no one else uses like Hack, this article could be about any large company using GraalVM.

That's mostly true, but at least it's in London. London is a financial hub. When you see bitcoin ads replacing John Deere ads at the Des Moines airport, that's how you really know.

Facebook has no cliff. You still have to wait a little over a quarter, though.

It's not like the barrier to learning basic Python is that high. Or Excel macros.

> if they should

I hear crypto is a good place for this attitude, these days. I actually got an email from a recruiter describing the product as React for smart contracts.

I actually find the childish antics of Baseball--trick plays, fights, intentionally hitting players with pitching, sign stealing, sticky balls--to be a charming part of the game.

One thing about these politics and Megacorp: they're mostly easy to avoid if you don't subscribe to the forums they're in.

Whenever there's a high-profile activist worker firing, I'm suspicious of motives on both sides because the company really could be trying to suppress something, but someone spending this much time as an activist could be seriously underperforming in their job.

The business world will all be app-based once Gen-Z starts founding companies.

(Perceived) fame and fortune are pretty standard aspirations.