Born Hunter
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It's not that mate. If the economy crashes then tax revenues crash, then public services end and people die anyway. Society has to knuckle under and get on with it.
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We don't seem to have been hit anywhere near as bad. YET. 20 cases per million people in UK, vs like 400 per million in Italy. Is it worth crashing the economy and society?
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f***ing ZOMBIES!
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That may be increasing the spread but I believe the relatively high fatality rate they are seeing is because they have a large number of older people in their population compared to other countries. Fair point though anyway.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Stats by country. New cases per day has dropped considerably in China. Just ten yesterday I believe. They are beginning to encourage business to resume as a result which of course may lead to a upsurge in cases.
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Denmark have more cases than we do. And wouldn't you say Iran have strong borders? The third hardest hit county in the world.
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I just want to add though that I do believe in trading globally and not being totally isolationist. I just think that we need to continually consider the strategic picture. Are we exposed here.... Is this gamble worth it etc etc. Imo we are no safer isolating ourselves than we are completely opening everything up. We became a great nation because of our ability to operate globally, it's in our DNA.
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Mate! China have become a real issue for me over the past year or so anyway. They are a f***ing savage bunch with some seriously conflicting ethics and ideals to us in the West. Historically they have kept all that to their own back yard and not rocked the boat internationally, just chugged away taking what business they can so long as no one bothered them. Now they are building up their ability to project power, initially regionally but inevitably globally and they have aspirations to start to flex those muscles. Never mind this pandemic, we can't continue to treat China like they're not tomo
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He made some really interesting points. Like how the Chinese markets are basically committing very serious health crimes with their careless biosecurity and food hygiene. Also how CWD is a serious accident waiting to happen, how our critical pharmaceutical supply chains are exposed, how our controls of bush fires has caused ticks to explode etc etc. Really interesting guy and podcast!
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I've got to challenge this though, and I wish Joe did to clarify. He says Spanish Flu had a 3-3.2% case fatality rate (CFR = percentage of people who caught the virus who then died from it) and then goes on to say that COVID19 is potentially as bad as that because current estimates are putting the CFR at around 2-3%..... I've been reading up about the Spanish Flu pandemic to put this COVID19 in to context so that claim had my eyebrow raise a bit. Not denying he's the undoubted expert however so are the CDC... So that's at least a 10% CFR for the Spanish Flu (which is what I
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Talking about stock markets, listen to this for a few minutes... Still reckon the markets reflect reality and are controlled by rational people? I'll acknowledge that this very respectable guy paints a slightly more serious picture than I have been.
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Fellas...
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Just to clarify, you said that we should take this serious because governments are 'stopping the hamster wheel', at the very least implying that they know something about the severity of this pandemic that we don't. It really depends how you define 'severe' I guess but I don't feel that in terms of fatality or health effects that COVID19 is much to get in a flap about. Based on what data is being published so far. If we take reasonable precautions then likely hardly anyone will die, those that do will likely be less than prime anyway and in a years time we'll all be getting jagged for it and w
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Yeah, because people are going to die and everyone is already absolutely shitting it so when those people do start dying the electorate will be screaming why the government hasn’t done anything to stop it. Now they can say they took reasonable measures mitigating the backlash. Im not really convinced the machine has slowed dramatically at all either. Not being funny mate but it’s not like the government are privy to data the we aren’t. COVID19 isn’t something to be ignored but it’ll blow over and we’ll all just crack on like normal. As I said, maybe I’m wrong. Check me in six months
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Hmmm we'll see. I think they're taking basic precautions in response to mass hysteria. In months to come we'll find out.
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I dunno but I get the impression that these management systems are most beneficial to highly developed companies that are working on a multitude of projects simultaneous. Companies that are in their infancy/start ups focusing on a single project/product maybe don't benefit so much as they aren't overwhelmed with work. I'm not knocking you by saying that, I think small young companies are the most exciting.
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I think the spanner and code monkeys in engineering disciplines can benefit from these systems quite a lot but I think research disciplines need to be given more freedom to f**k about with ideas. Difference between linear thinkers and lateral thinkers imo. But honestly, I don't know shit really. Getting out of the nitty gritty technical stuff and into a more business focused role (within a technical company), like project management or tech sales is probably a mid-long term career aspiration of mine so it wouldn't hurt t gain experience.
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The impact of our version of PRINCE2 project management has been department managers getting out of doing project paperwork because now they give it to a lowly 'project coordinator' to do! It was the perfect opportunity for them to offer legit project management opportunities to staff but they are too stuck in their ways to let that happen and as a consequence it's pretty much died a death. The real benefits of PRINCE2 have not been gained because they won't relinquish control! The AGILE stuff has been with our Softies for a few years now and tbh it seems to have improved things up there.
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Leaked footage from early outbreaks.....
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Exactly!
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Proper gay! Basically means the c**ts above me are actually able to keep tabs on how much work I'm doing...... or not doing! It's INHUMANE!
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We have implemented the likes of PRINCE2 and AGILE systems at our place. I wouldn't say I'm an expert but I've worked under these systems, or at least tailored versions.
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Purely speculation now, I would be suspicious that the RSPCA have the phone so the police do not have to break the law illegally gaining evidence from it. The consequences of the RSPCA doing it being much less severe than if the police did but the end result is still admissible evidence....
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I thought the police could use evidence gained illegally in court in this country so long as it was relevant? Unfortunately, we don't have a Fourth Amendment like the USA.
