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Any statistics on US deaths like this? I couldn't seem to find anything particularly useful. I just mean to say that China is an enormous country, and statisti
by mellotron 13y ago
Any statistics on US deaths like this? I couldn't seem to find anything particularly useful.
I just mean to say that China is an enormous country, and statistically these things are bound to happen. Does anyone else perceive this type of media coverage as part of a greater strategy of propagandizing or is the oversturation of news outlets just hungry for enything sensationalist to grab eyeballs? Both?
- kayoone 13y agowhile you are right, these things just happen. I have just recently read about a 22 year old guy from Zynga and from a similiarly aged engineer that had the same thing happen to them. While chances to survive are extremly low, both guys are well now. I read about it on HN and Reddit.
- objclxt 13y agoSudden cardiac arrest is quite common amongst the population as a whole (http://www.sca-aware.org/about-sca http://www.sca-aware.org/about-sca). What's rather uncommon is it to happen at a young age, but it's not unknown. In the four years I was at college two students suffered fatal arrests, both thought to be healthy with no prior symptoms.
- walshemj 13y agoAnecdotal but some one I know who worked at one of the big 4 had a younger co worker who "worked him self to death" in the UK.
- reeses 13y agoInterestingly, the only people (OK, two) who died on "death march" projects were offshore team members from India and China who came to the US specifically for the final 18-24h/day push to hit a launch date. This is out of maybe 90 people working extreme hours on the two projects in question.