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https://www.ft.com/content/805e23ae-61ee-11e9-a27a-fdd51850994cquote:At its opening share price, Zoom is worth $19bn based on a fully-diluted share count. That tops the current $15bn market cap of Snap, the messaging service whose IPO two years ago was seen as a highlight for the consumer internet. https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1244288588633825280 Zoom absolutely exploded in the last few years to a degree that's mad even for Silicon Valley, it's just the people buying it and getting excited for it were entirely the kind of people who get to decide which video conferencing software your office uses.
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forkboy84 posted:I'm getting suspicious that it was Zoom what created Coronavirus 19 because nae oval office had even heard of their app 6 weeks ago & now it's every where. Funnily enough we had just started discussing moving to it towards the end of last year. I was having meetings on it occasionally to test it out, then CERN closed completely and all meetings went remote, the previous solution we were using poo poo the bed under the extra load and most meetings that could moved over to zoom.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:01
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What a surprise https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1245046544501530624?s=19
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Mar 31, 2020 19:06
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Dell_Zincht posted:Thanks for this, definitely making a note of all the companies I used to use frequently but will not be touching with a bargepole when all this is over. That's not even the worst part. Wren are literally saying "You're fired because you're not good enough, but you're welcome to reapply for a job after the crisis is over". I don't think there's an employment tribunal anywhere who wouldn't deem that to be constructive dismissal.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:12
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Jedit posted:That's not even the worst part. Wren are literally saying "You're fired because you're not good enough, but you're welcome to reapply for a job after the crisis is over". I don't think there's an employment tribunal anywhere who wouldn't deem that to be constructive dismissal. I might be wrong but I don't think if you're been employed under 2 years you have any scope for taking it to tribunal or claiming unfair dismissal etc. The worst thing about that letter is claiming it is a performance issue. Surely, on the assumption that it is not a performance issue, that is unnecessary and redundancy in view of the economic climate is enough?
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Mar 31, 2020 19:17
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Jedit posted:That's not even the worst part. Wren are literally saying "You're fired because you're not good enough, but you're welcome to reapply for a job after the crisis is over". I don't think there's an employment tribunal anywhere who wouldn't deem that to be constructive dismissal. Yeah, surely they’re hosed if this goes to tribunal. Glad I didn’t get my kitchen from them now. but did show their ideas to an independent trader.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:18
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This is the future Democrats dream of.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:20
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Red Oktober posted:Yeah, surely they’re hosed if this goes to tribunal. Glad I didn’t get my kitchen from them now. but did show their ideas to an independent trader. As JA said before you can't take them to the tribunal if you've been there for less than 2 years, hence why it says "under 2 years" in the document header. A lot of your employment contract (as far as employer obligations go, they can still sue you if they want) is basically meaningless for the first 2 years. In some ways it's less protection than even in the worst US states for that period.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:27
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I have to say the most surprising thing about corona is it's made Peston start actually doing his loving job re: tory claims
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Mar 31, 2020 19:31
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https://twitter.com/goldfishbabe101/status/1041091265113333760 Lol, called it.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:32
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Welsh vulnerables, be prepared. I've checked - the GP practice is real, the person named in the latter is as real as can be determined from a google. https://twitter.com/MelanieLeahy/status/1245033738037334019 The tweet has been reposted with the name of the person it was sent to deleted: https://twitter.com/MelanieLeahy/status/1245057632634908672?s=20 And as a silly counterpoint: thread https://twitter.com/royalacademy/status/1245004336687702017?s=20 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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Iffyn shee art not spæking thussly thæn Y credyt notte hyr claymes of XIIth hundertyeeare Nunneree.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:35
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is the future Democrats dream of. Means tested homelessness boxes. Only available if you've become homeless through no fault of your own, by our very liberal definition of fault; it's your fault your job got outsourced and you couldn't find a new career at age 55 for example. Think about all the empty hotel rooms in Vegas right now. gently caress, even the empty sports arenas. But nah, can't even give the homeless a roof over their heads. I know it's Las Vegas but it's still going to get nippy at night. (I'm assuming this is happening in Las Vegas, one of two places people live in Nevada, the other being Reno)
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Mar 31, 2020 19:39
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I know a bunch of university labs that have been donating RNA extraction kits and qPCR machines to hospitals, and the manufacturers have said they're in the process of massively ramping up production, so there's clearly a bottleneck somewhere. But "there is/isn't a shortage of reagents" is a loving useless soundbite as neither Gove or Peston say what the reagents are.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:40
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Welsh vulnerables, be prepared. Already gone. https://twitter.com/MelanieLeahy/status/1245057632634908672 e: apparently reposted
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Mar 31, 2020 19:41
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Welsh vulnerables, be prepared. Well obviously it's been deleted. What did it say?
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duckmaster posted:Well obviously it's been deleted. What did it say? 
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Mar 31, 2020 19:43
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Welsh vulnerables, be prepared. Gone already, though I was able to snap the cached twitter thumbnail: E:beaten with info removed.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:45
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Biggus Dickus posted:Gone already, though I was able to snap the cached twitter thumbnail: Ah I see why they took it down, patients name and address is uncovered in that version - you might want to edit that out.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:46
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For people wondering why the government have got such high approval ratings, this is why. They have preplanned "press conferences" that are broadcast across the nation in prime time where they state that the situation is currently X. The media hacks then go off and find out that, actually, the situation is Y, and this is the bad situation. But the 6 oclock news has already happened, most people don't spend their time reading random journalists's twitter accounts, and by the time the morning news comes around they're too busy doing fluff pieces about the NHS.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:47
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Oh they're lovely: https://twitter.com/DickKingSmith/status/1245052868144631809?s=20
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Mar 31, 2020 19:52
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Hi, I live in Vegas. To put how hosed up this is in sharper relief: not only is the Strip and all its hotel/casinos empty, but Vegas is the 4th in the US in home vacancy-- fully 15% of Las Vegas homes were vacant as of March 2019. That's just shy of 128,000 homes. Vegas has an estimated 5,500 homeless residents. gently caress this place. Don't come here. Don't spend money here. Las Vegas is a wasteland of the human soul.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:52
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It seems like the letters are only being sent to people who are currently suffering from a terminal illness. Really, their GP should have had a conversation about this regardless of COVID-19 as CPR is very brutal on the body and very unlikely to work in the majority of cases. It's a horrible way for a life to end when the alternative is passing away at home. Having said that, I doubt there will be enough palliative and community care ensuring that people with DNACPR/those not admitted to hospital will be kept comfortable in their final days, which is an issue. Also, DNACPRs are put in place by doctors based on their clinical judgement, and it can be against family/patient wishes although I don't know how often this actually happens. It will also be a very high transmission intervention which is putting the healthcare staff at risk. So I can see the doctors reasons for encouraging patients to think about their resuscitation status but I'm not sure if that letter is the best way to do it.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:53
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minema posted:It seems like the letters are only being sent to people who are currently suffering from a terminal illness. Really, their GP should have had a conversation about this regardless of COVID-19 as CPR is very brutal on the body and very unlikely to work in the majority of cases. It's a horrible way for a life to end when the alternative is passing away at home. They seem to be aware of that. And I think they are sending these letters asking their terminal patients to agree to DNR because they know that they won't be in a position to attempt it.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh they're lovely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNq_BQIKFaE When I first saw this video it was captioned "Man has best day ever" which isn't technically true because it's a llama, not an alpaca, empirically the Best Animal.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Funnily enough we had just started discussing moving to it towards the end of last year. I was having meetings on it occasionally to test it out, then CERN closed completely and all meetings went remote, the previous solution we were using poo poo the bed under the extra load and most meetings that could moved over to zoom. It's probably better than microsoft Teams and its limited 4 simultaneous screens view. Nothing quite like a visual communication medium capping you at 4 loving people before it shuffles out the quietest person in the room.
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Dell_Zincht posted:
I work in the kitchen and bathroom industry, and Wren had a reputation for being a bunch of complete twats to their employees and customers even before Coronavirus. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. They're also charging people 150.00 to delay delivery of kitchens, and have form for threatening legal action against people who try cancelling an order. I dodged a big bullet by never taking a job there.
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Mar 31, 2020 20:20
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"Hey Webex, can you keep the video feed of the meeting room with 8 people big, and everyone else small?" "No! Guy on his own in Italy is breathing! He go big now!"
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Follow up to the Welsh surgery letter posted earlier: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/31/welsh-surgery-says-sorry-after-telling-the-very-ill-not-to-call-999 quote:Welsh surgery apologises over 'do not resuscitate' instruction
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Everyone (especially people with health issues) should consider what they'd want in an advance care directive, including whether they want their chest stoved in for a few more days/months, but the letter is a bit on the nose. Maybe they should have been advertising advance care forms between the life insurance and make a will adverts on daytime TV a few months/years ago instead (I'm not sure who 'they' would be in this case).
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Mar 31, 2020 21:11
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe they should have been advertising advance care forms between the life insurance and make a will adverts on daytime TV a few months/years ago instead (I'm not sure who 'they' would be in this case). Parkie 
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Mar 31, 2020 21:12
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All video conferencing software is poo poo, but lol that the government is using Zoom of all things. Glad that App Mancock presumably got his moment in the sun showing everyone how it works though.
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Mar 31, 2020 21:39
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Is there a house of commons and a cobra in second Life?
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The cobra is an actual snake who wants to yiff you though.
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big scary monsters posted:All video conferencing software is poo poo, but lol that the government is using Zoom of all things. Glad that App Mancock presumably got his moment in the sun showing everyone how it works though. Zoom's extra poo poo from a company / privacy / security perspective. Both as being an extra poo poo company and being extra poo poo for companies. ... also on the gang tags, no, they're not in their own folder and haven't been for years, and AdBlock anything is so hilariously out of date you should check if you have transformed into grandmothers recommending them. uBlock Origin is the one you use if you don't want to give an advertising company access to everything you browse. For videoconferencing there's no options that don't give an advertising company access to everything or require you to roll your own. Yeah, it sucks. Zoom is the worst of the big players though.
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endlessmonotony posted:For videoconferencing there's no options that don't give an advertising company access to everything or require you to roll your own. Yeah, it sucks. Zoom is the worst of the big players though. I don't think that's true of Microsoft's offerings. Teams is wank and Skype for Business too, but AFAIK you pay Microsoft for the licenses and that's the product, not your data.
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Guavanaut posted:Everyone (especially people with health issues) should consider what they'd want in an advance care directive, including whether they want their chest stoved in for a few more days/months, but the letter is a bit on the nose. Everyone should also tell their loved ones how they feel about them, I get that it feels that stuff will never happen to them, but that's how most people feel, then it does, and then its too late.
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OwlFancier posted:The cobra is an actual snake who wants to yiff you though. Good luck finding me in the thick fog of flying penises. e: oops sorry i meant to quote this post willie_dee posted:Everyone should also tell their loved ones how they feel about them,
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