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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Nusa:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 23, 2020, 08:31:29 pm ---Apparently California just today passed New York as the state with the highest number of Covid19 cases. Exponential functions are a b!tch...
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One of those statistics that misrepresents reality because it's not population adjusted. Go here and sort by Total case / 1M population. See where California is on that list (you may need to scroll). How about Arizona and Florida?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 18, 2020, 07:05:24 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on July 18, 2020, 12:05:28 am ---Or offer other perks. My employer doesn't pay all that great, but they offered flexible hours, work from home even prior to Covid, "unlimited" PTO which means essentially that as long as your work gets done you can just take time off whenever you need it.
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Altium used to have free food (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), make your own hours, free gym membership, free car washing, free concierge errand service (i.e. get someone to go to the shop to buy something for you etc) and other stuff. Still couldn't get staff because of the shitty location, probably the worst spot in Sydney for a tech company.
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I was around in those days when that region was (on paper) poised to be another Chatswood. That's why the Bunnings (Hardware House) was put there, to feed the construction of the new metropolis.
One of my good payers used his powers as CEO and moved his company HQ in there with the same aspirations as, I'm sure, Altium had.
The idea was to sort of spread out in all four directions with a kind of less dense approach that would appease the existing local residents. One such resident was a certain Dick Head ;) who, like several others, had a bad case of the NIMBY's. So the project got stifled somewhat.
In the opposite direction down the hill towards froggy forrest, was seen as a fertile gold mine, ready to explode. That's why that overpass/underpass got built.
There were other factors that frightened the next wave of investors after the first ones had done so much. All three levels of bastardy if you catch my drift, I'll spare ya the gory details. ;)
Most commercial entities who weren't locked in choofed-off to Parra, Chatty or Nth Sydney. And that was that.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Nusa on July 24, 2020, 02:51:18 am ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 23, 2020, 08:31:29 pm ---Apparently California just today passed New York as the state with the highest number of Covid19 cases. Exponential functions are a b!tch...
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One of those statistics that misrepresents reality because it's not population adjusted. Go here and sort by Total case / 1M population. See where California is on that list (you may need to scroll). How about Arizona and Florida?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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I am yet to be convinced that dividing the cases by the population makes a lot of sense. - After all, it only takes one infected person to cause a problem, even if the population is 1.4Bn as in China.
Seen from that perspective, the important number is how many "carriers" are on the loose and potentially infecting the healthy population (whether the healthy population is 10K or 10Gig persons doesn't matter).
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 24, 2020, 02:40:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nusa on July 24, 2020, 02:51:18 am ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 23, 2020, 08:31:29 pm ---Apparently California just today passed New York as the state with the highest number of Covid19 cases. Exponential functions are a b!tch...
--- End quote ---
One of those statistics that misrepresents reality because it's not population adjusted. Go here and sort by Total case / 1M population. See where California is on that list (you may need to scroll). How about Arizona and Florida?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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I am yet to be convinced that dividing the cases by the population makes a lot of sense. - After all, it only takes one infected person to cause a problem, even if the population is 1.4Bn as in China.
Seen from that perspective, the important number is how many "carriers" are on the loose and potentially infecting the healthy population (whether the healthy population is 10K or 10Gig persons doesn't matter).
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The point is sound but the hysterical news media cannot make up their minds which approach to take, so they err on the side of running with the one that is most likely to frighten the daylights out of people.
Nusa:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 24, 2020, 02:40:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nusa on July 24, 2020, 02:51:18 am ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 23, 2020, 08:31:29 pm ---Apparently California just today passed New York as the state with the highest number of Covid19 cases. Exponential functions are a b!tch...
--- End quote ---
One of those statistics that misrepresents reality because it's not population adjusted. Go here and sort by Total case / 1M population. See where California is on that list (you may need to scroll). How about Arizona and Florida?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
--- End quote ---
I am yet to be convinced that dividing the cases by the population makes a lot of sense. - After all, it only takes one infected person to cause a problem, even if the population is 1.4Bn as in China.
Seen from that perspective, the important number is how many "carriers" are on the loose and potentially infecting the healthy population (whether the healthy population is 10K or 10Gig persons doesn't matter).
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You divided cases by population when you compared two states to each other in the first place. You just failed to mention the fact that California has twice the population of New York state.
But let's go with your argument. If what counts is the number of carriers, then Total cases is still the wrong metric, since that's counting a LOT of people who aren't currently carriers, including those that are dead and those who are fully recovered. I'd suggest that population density matters as well. Did you know that the densest parts of the NYC metro area are actually in New Jersey? New Jersey actually beats New York and leads the nation when it comes to Deaths / 1M population.
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