It’s worse than physical meetings as the camera is always on.
Audio on the other hand let’s you focus on just the speaker. And what they are saying. No fancy UI to distract. No looking at the bookshelf in the speakers background. Just audio.
Really should be billed on a combination of peak utilization and total consumption.
Having the ability to download at 1Gibps for a few minutes a day is a lot less strain than downloading 24x7 at 1Gibps.
Such complex billing models are pretty common with electrical utilities. With many industrial consumers even installing Flywheels to reduce their utilization spikes.
IP transit in data centers etc is often a combination of a base rate + extra fees based on the 95% percentile (if that value is over the base rate). E.g. you might buy a 500Mb/s base rate over a 1 Gb/s link, and then end up with a 95% percentile value of 600Mb/s at the end of the month, so you pay an extra fee for the 100Mbit difference. Whereas if you use the link fully for 2 % of the time, but then stay under the base rate the rest of month, you only pay the base price.
I imagine that model would work really well for a lot of data usage too: Downloading updates for applications and games could be scheduled for off-peak times, and users might even be incentivized to pre-cache streaming content they want to watch during primetime hours if they can save by doing so.
“ Among the 2,634 patients for whom outcomes were known, the overall death rate was 21%, but it rose to 88% for those who received mechanical ventilation, the Northwell Health COVID-19 Research Consortium reported.”
“ Ventilators are typically used only when patients are extremely ill, so experts believe that between 40% and 50% of patients die after going on ventilation, regardless of the underlying illness.”
2. The cited study only measures outcomes and does not claim that ventilators worsen patient outcomes. Covid patients who are hospitalized have a higher rate of death [citation needed]. Does that mean hospitals kill Covid patients?
For example, when I worked in Cairns (cape York Australia, which serves a massive area with a large indigenous population), aboriginals have a belief that people going to the hospital go there to die (because people who have been sick enough to go to hospital... die). So yes, hospitals kill covid patients, because patients sick enough to need to go to hospital are sick enough to die. I know you’re kind of writing in jest and looking for sources but the fact remains that admittance to ICU (when I did my ICU term, at least in Australia and at least when I did it - my brother is an ICU trainee and I raised this number with him and he said it’s lower than that now, here) carries an all source mortality risk of 30%. 30% of those who are wheeled through the doors go out in a bag.
To relate this to COVID, generally ventilators don’t cause an increase in mortality just because you are on one. This was a surprising finding during the early days. It is also contrary to what we find in influenza patients, where it is usually life saving when a patient gets too tired to breathe in their own but still has enough good lung function to be able to respire with their lungs (the alternative being ECMO, or artificial blood gas exchange). I’m on mobile and it’s late so am not at liberty to pull up the research but I recall the consensus being that there was a contradiction: patients who were sedated and ventilated were being so done on the basis of a rapid deterioration in o2 sats; but generally we’re still alert and potentially orientated. It was quickly found that prone positioning (putting a patient on their front to get more gas exchange to the apexes of their lungs) could keep then unventilated and they did better - a lesson learned pretty quickly as regions of Italy and the UK ran out of ventilators
I’ve also seen that FANG is actively discriminating against white men. I was asked to throw out all white male and Asian male resumes for an internship programs relatively recently.
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it depends on the details of how and why.
A uniform decision regarding all interns across an entire company targeting specific racial charactaristics is very different from a policy that bases decisions on objective measurements done in good faith with intent to correct for some form of bias.
I also sat in a conversation with my team about not hiring the most qualified intern candidate because he was a white guy. Affirmative action is a double edged sword and it sucks that more left leaning people in places of power can't admit that.
And it has a battery that doesn't give you range anxiety? And you can charge it with 100kW+ on a supercharger? And it has the autopilot that can drive without interaction for hundreds of miles? And it will get software updates through wifi? All of those things just work?
No antagonism. The comment claimed that they have bought an equivalent vechicle, I am wondering what that vechicle is, because to my knowledge there aren't really any good competitors to Tesla, if you consider the combination of the quality (-ish, it's decent), software, battery tech, driving performance and price.
I didn’t claim I bought an equivalent vehicle. I bought a vehicle which just “works”. And I avoided all the Tesla build quality issues.
I have a gas car / hybrid for the 100mile+ road trips we take once every 60 days.
And I have an EV for the daily driver. Nissan Leaf has more than enough range (for daily driving) cost 6-7k, insurance is $20/month, and I’ve yet to have any maintenance issues.
It’s worse than physical meetings as the camera is always on.
Audio on the other hand let’s you focus on just the speaker. And what they are saying. No fancy UI to distract. No looking at the bookshelf in the speakers background. Just audio.