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Comment Re:Unlimited == ? (Score 1) 252

As for the tier, he already pays to be in the highest tier. His monthly bill is $150 a month, both to pay for the bandwidth and the speed. That's pretty much business tier. If Cox cannot deliver this, then they need to refund him.

Cox business tier $150 a month only gets you 200Mbps down and 20Mbps up. So no he's not quite in business tier there. That's also with a 36 month contract. Without the contract it costs significantly more. He's paying $150 for residential gigabit, so 4x that download.

I don't think its right but he's not paying anywhere near business prices.

Comment Re:How on earth... (Score 1) 252

Just barely. If every packet needs an ack you get 36Mbit/s as minimum upload for gigabit down. But tcp doesn't ack every packet and the window size slides to avoid needing to ack every packet. DOCSIS apparently does ack suppression to save bandwidth too. in the perfect storm of wrong conditions you'll just barely be under the full gigabit. but in every day use it should be just right.

Comment Re:Orange Man will be VERY happy. (Score 1) 64

This company's new test might not have shown up as quickly as you'd have liked. But this one alone, in the numbers they plan to be producing by July, can test the whole US population in under seven months.

You understand they're talking about an antibody test right, not an infection test.

As in if you try to use this test to diagnose infection, you will end up with a TON of false positives.

Comment Re: There's something really ridiculous here (Score 1) 284

At worst, if you're already hospitalized, you're basically trading a ~1% risk of agonizing, gruesome death from cytokine storm for a ~1% risk of instant death due to cardiac arrest.

They're already ending studies early because the risk of death is too high, too many subjects were having bad side effects.

Comment Re:There's something really ridiculous here (Score 1) 284

If some random person with unknown medical history takes HCQ at some reasonable dose, their likelihood of dying is low. If you make even the slightest attempt to screen them first for arrhythmia and exclude them if they have it, the likelihood is negligible.

We're already seeing people having to leave the studies because taking Hydroxychloroquine with azithroymyacin is giving them arrhythmia. It is unfortunately quite common and requires constant monitoring to ensure the drug doesn't kill them.

Comment Re:There's something really ridiculous here (Score 1) 284

It's safe enough to prescribe to someone with instructions on how much to take and when and say see you in 6 weeks for a followup, call if you have any concerns.

The treatment protocols for hydryoxychloroquine + azith include constant heart rate monitoring to ensure no heart arrhythmia develops. That's not a "see you in 6 weeks for a followup call" situation.

That's about as safe as anything the doctor might prescribe.

I've never been prescribed a drug that required constant heart monitoring.

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