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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 26, 2020, 11:38:51 pm ---But at the end of the day, I'm just happy I work in something considered essential so at least I still HAVE a job, and I'm getting paid.  Sad to see so many companies using this as an opportunity to do mass layoffs.   Lot of people are going to be jobless after all this is done.
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Unfortunately that's the reality of business. Majority of businesses do not operate with much cash reserve. So a shutdown of weeks or a month or two could ruin them. They often have no choice but to cut staff in order for the company to survive longer. The business equivalent of "flattening the curve".
For my company it's now kinda fortuitous that David decided to leave last December, as my cash burn rate is now much lower. I probably wouldn't have had to let him go because of this, but he was my biggest company expense and I'm now glad I have less expenses. Particularly as I've now been stuck paying rent on my 100sqm place just for me and my old lab isn't being rented out and I'm paying the outgoings on that. I'm fairly lucky (so far) in that advertisers have decided to stay and people are still buying products, but that could change.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 26, 2020, 06:32:14 pm ---   Stop throwing out bull shit to defend your position.
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Chill out.


--- Quote ---That's how progress is made, not by waiting for a bunch of EU type regulators to approve things that they know nothing about.
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Go start a medical devices company and let us know how you get on avoiding all the red tape.
Just because you might be able to get away with it in a small area of the industry does not extend to industry as a whole.
langwadt:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 27, 2020, 01:39:09 am ---
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 26, 2020, 11:38:51 pm ---But at the end of the day, I'm just happy I work in something considered essential so at least I still HAVE a job, and I'm getting paid.  Sad to see so many companies using this as an opportunity to do mass layoffs.   Lot of people are going to be jobless after all this is done.
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Unfortunately that's the reality of business. Majority of businesses do not operate with much cash reserve. So a shutdown of weeks or a month or two could ruin them. They often have no choice but to cut staff in order for the company to survive longer. The business equivalent of "flattening the curve".
For my company it's now kinda fortuitous that David decided to leave last December, as my cash burn rate is now much lower. I probably wouldn't have had to let him go because of this, but he was my biggest company expense and I'm now glad I have less expenses. Particularly as I've now been stuck paying rent on my 100sqm place just for me and my old lab isn't being rented out and I'm paying the outgoings on that. I'm fairly lucky (so far) in that advertisers have decided to stay and people are still buying products, but that could change.

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here the government will pay a substantial part of salaries and also some fixed expenses for businesses
have been forced to stay closed, in return hoping they will try their best to keep people.

They can of course not keep doing that forever and we all know we'll be paying the bill later, but it might
soften the blow

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 26, 2020, 06:32:14 pm ---The hospital that I was in made a small but significant improvement in neonatal respirators after they noticed that infants that used one particular respirator had better results than infants on any of the other respirators.  They tore it down and found that one valve wasn't opening fully and it maintained a slight amount of positive air pressure. They modified the other respirators to do the same and found that all of them gave a better survival rate. Since then that modification has become standard in all neonatal respirators.  That's how progress is made, not by waiting for a bunch of EU type regulators to approve things that they know nothing about.

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And how long ago was this? Nowadays doctors work based on fixed procedures and tools. Very very few have any wiggle room to be 'creative'. Creativity can also lead to more deaths. Do you want your doctor to experiment on you with an unproven method / tool?
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 26, 2020, 06:32:14 pm ---[...] They modified the other respirators to do the same [accidentally discovered improvement] and found that all of them gave a better survival rate. Since then that modification has become standard in all neonatal respirators.  That's how progress is made, not by waiting for a bunch of EU type regulators to approve things that they know nothing about.

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A lot of progress has been made fortuitously/accidentally... and that will continue.  But you shouldn't dismiss the power of regulation, for example regulation has improved emissions of cars dramatically over the decades.  It is also wrong to assume that regulators don't know what they are doing - often regulators are senior people from the industry involved, or they draw on industry resources.

For every question, there is an answer that is simple, intuitive, and... wrong.  Keep a lookout for those, and you'll do OK!
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