Posts by Mark 65

Re: Glassdoor...

Sounds like a good market to try writing one of those fledgling competitors in. Getting bought out as a booster sounds better than the type of companies that crush competition.

Re: Can anyone explain ...

albeit with 5x the salary

and 10x the living expenses.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

under the pressure of great dangers

and there's your problem.

Small pox (variola major variant) had a fatality rate of 30% -> great danger.

Delta variant sits around 0.2% for the under 50s (PHE data) -> not even close, and that's measured by "deaths with" not "deaths from". That my friend is a very long bow to draw.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

Risk the health of others? You mean the vaccinated?

You do realise that vaccinated people get delta, spread delta, and die from delta don't you?

This vaccine does not confer immunity it merely lessens the effects, but not always and only for a limited time and it varies by individual.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

what difference do you draw between Covid-19 vaccination and those that are mentioned above

Let me help you out with that one. With a 0.2% case fatality rate (PHE numbers) in the under 50 unvaccinated population, the delta variant is as weak as piss. That isn't even controlling for pre-existing conditions or fat fuckers. That is the difference.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

That wasn't what the Israelis found. I believe their touted statistic was that people were 13 times less likely to present with a re-infection than in the vaccinated population.

Re: It reads like an Orwellian novel, only it's real

That's where the myth and the reality diverge.

Re: Freedom is Slavery

Yes and no. Gain of function can have duel purposes. In the altruistic version you are playing with viruses you believe could in time infect humans and artificially boosting their capability to do so to "see what happens" thereby enabling you to grade the potential threat etc etc.

Performing bio-weapons research would involve pretty similar actions albeit I would generally expect that to be performed in a far more secure facility. That said, doing so kind of highlights what you're up to so moving it to a more conventional research facility could mask that.

Either way this has incompetence/complacency written all over it. Infecting you're own population and stifling your economic output isn't a great goal. Beneficial is a double-edged sword. Yes, they have certainly gained in some regards however now everyone views them as outright arseholes who screwed the planet deluxe and that will likely not help them going forward. Especially when you consider it helped to hit home how poor supply chains were with outsourced manufacturing to one country that stopped producing.

Re: Freedom is Slavery

I believe it was a lab leak, not necessarily the main one being focused on, and I also believe it was a clusterfuck rather than deliberate. Never attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by incompetence. You play with for long enough and you will get burned.

Re: It reads like an Orwellian novel, only it's real

It seems COVID has provided a great opportunity to slowly boil the frog and remove basic freedoms that will now never fully be returned. It has demonstrated exactly how a population can be brought to the bidding of their masters.

No, that doesn’t mean I believe it was planned but all good politicians and civil service mandarins are effective at spotting an opportunity, and this was a golden once in a lifetime one.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

@jmch well reasoned and rational response.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

The case numbers are irrelevant except for calculating the death rate. The typical number of deaths in the UK is around 1500 per day from all causes. We’re looking at around 150 per day that have had a positive test in the last 28 days. Had it, not necessarily died because of it.

Previous PHE releases indicate the death rate in the unvaccinated population under 50 is 0.2% or 1 in 500. Don’t forget that’s died with COVID not necessarily from COVID.

We need to get away from case numbers and concentrate on the deaths. Nobody gives a toss how many people get the flu each year but we do focus on the deaths and the death rate. This should be no different - it’s the only way society can move on, although it seems plenty would rather not.

Re: I'll be tracked almost everywhere I go...

People don’t seem to want to accept it, but the research out of Israel that prompted booster jabs due to the protection waning also indicates that immunity from previously having the virus is far far superior as you would tend to think - the immune system has allowed humans to survive for this long after all.

With the alpha variant, catching it was less advisable due to a much higher case fatality rate. However that’s not the case with delta. Obviously it’s not an option available to all but plenty of virologists are not for kids being vaccinated but rather allow them to catch it and then reap the benefits of natural immunity for the rest of their lives.

The point you make likely reflects this research and hopefully sanity rather than emotive hysteria will prevail for the young.

@doublelayer: the difference is that El Reg aren't pimping those hateful posts as things you might like, adding them to a feed or selling advertising off the back of them.

Re: Postal

I was going to make a similar comment that the old common carrier argument falls down when you read and block content that you don't agree with (rather than just plain old illegal). Once you start down the track of moderating content you can therefore be held accountable for what you let through.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/health-department-believes-they-ve-found-original-cases-in-aviation-cluster-20211002-p58wmh.html

6 cases, all double vaccinated. I was quarantined because of it, so hardly anecdotal given the involvement of the health department you tit.

@DJO: I call outright bullshit on that statement. The UK produces full figures on deaths from delta broken down into above and below 50 as well as various vaccination states. The figures show that for the delta variant you’re talking utter shite. The death rate is pretty much the same, double vaxxed or not.

Don’t quote made up numbers when real ones are available.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1018547/Technical_Briefing_23_21_09_16.pdf

Most recent outbreaks where I live in Australia have been caused by double vaccinated people, so there goes that theory.

Re: Sounds like a cry for help.

My opinion is that hybrid makes sense for most of these at scale companies whereby they have a peaking capacity for odd times it is needed. Full cloud makes more sense for a startup moving out of the garage phase of development and hosting.

SaaS to me has always been about the ability to both charge more and dictate upgrade cycles.

Re: Is it such a big problem in this case?

In the case of that kind of data you’re more likely to be using a storage array rather than a single drive, in which case how much difference does it really make? If you want to smash around 8k video you know there’s a very high system cost to accompany that.

When the eventual environmental disaster of end of life batteries occurs I wonder how pious EV owners will be then?

Re: Primary?

When I read they were swapping primary in for master I thought “well at least they’re tackling the big issues” then realised my thunderbird instance has just crashed again as it does at times. FFS.

Re: State-sponsored murder

It does solve one problem - repeat offending.

Re: SNAFU

Cummings said Johnson had repeatedly ignored the advice of his chief scientific and medical advisers.

Pot-kettle.

Death rate is currently about 1/10 that compared to the December equivalent, which is certainly a good thing and shows the vaccines appear to be doing a good job, or most of the most vulnerable have already succumbed in the previous 18 months...

Hmmm, is that the vaccines or is this a different strain to the one involved in December? Delta vs Alpha. As viruses become more contagious then generally become less deadly - that's a selection mechanism for effective survival as killing your host isn't generally beneficial a la Ebola.

I'd say a lot of what you're seeing is the 0.1% case fatality rate of Delta vs the 2.7% CFR of the Alpha variant.