Hang on... so ~20% of the hires ended up being asian. Doesn't the same thing happen at other firms aiming for ~diversity~ where the % accepted deviates from the % applied?

I'm reading it and I'm also surprised.

As far as I understood the whole discrimination and quotas fiasco for minorities always talk about the general population to be compared with.

Decentralized networks benefit from no single entity being a bottle neck on connections. All a conventional DDOS does is slow down that single entity- here someone is employing the network to slow down most entities which uphold the network, achieving a very similar result.

This is exactly correct.

The crypto-community is a pie whose size isn't changing much. Coin prices fluctuate as investors move money from one coin to another, which causes price fluctuations. Attacks like this one which make ethereum look bad are beneficial to those other coins, who will expect prices to rise as a result of people selling their ETH out of fear.

And in the end, after the whale makes his profit in btc, he will probably reinvest in eth because it is low, gaining a larger stake in an already fragile economy, and will be able to exert more influence next time he tries to move the market.