[LINK] The numbers just don't add up.

[JanW]

At 12:13 PM 11/08/2016, Ben Elliston wrote:

>.. which is how it should have been done in the first place.  Why
>build a system with such a high peak capacity when you could smooth it
>out over several days (say, Queensland Monday, Victoria Tuesday, NSW
>Wednesday) and do it with less kit? 

Yep, that would have been one of the load balancing options.

But that would take a paradigm shift away from a "snapshot" to a surveillance collection, which is what it has become. Otherwise the snapshot would get away with margin of error, sample size, and NOT linking to a specific name.

J


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