Link. Hell of a virus.
Author Archives: jgordon
Apple launches web portal for Apple Card.
Link. Now it makes sense
“Six million good manufacturing jobs were automated out of existence in the US in 2000-2010, which led fairly directly to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.”
Link. Why neither a 4 day work week or depression era overtime penalties will spread work
Simulated flyover of Frozen Martian Crater
Link. Allegedly close to what we would see.
We Need Better Masks.
Link. Finally.
Lifetime discrimination linked to increased risk of high blood pressure among African-Americans
Link. “there was no dose-responsive relationship reflected in the findings”.
Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder
Link. Why?
“self-powered, compact, aluminum Thunderbolt 3 enclosure”
Link. $70. Not compatible with $20 USBC hubs though.
Book Review: “Will He Go?”
Link. Digression on the enlightenment imtellectual choosing between Wokism and Fascism.
Toronto is a weirdly awful city for bicycling …
Link. The Google bike map view is appalling. It’s one of the worst bike-ped cities in North America.
HASH.ai: a general purpose simulation toolset.
Link. Grand ambitions. Joel Spolsky a collaborator.
Five Word Jargon. xkcd
Link. I know the liver one.
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
Link. “Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747—less than 4 percent of the total—came to North America.” Must watch.
“whites and Hispanics are killed approximately in proportion to population. Blacks are killed at about twice their proportion to population”
Link.
The end of Seattle’s CHAZ.
Link. Patience made shutdown easier, but two died.
US excess death numbers: 27K more.
Link. IMHO that speaks well for our stats. We aren’t off by huge %.
“Shell writing down $22 billion on its balance sheets, making it the latest oil company to acknowledge that things are probably not going back to the way they were.”
Link. They think Trump will lose.
“members of the Church of Secular Science bow to the Gods of Data by wearing a mask as their symbol, demonstrating that they are the elite; smarter, more rational, and morally superior to everyone else.”
Link. This is important.
Flying Snakes Glide aero writhe.
Link. Complex and elegant.
CA: “This is faster and worse than I expected. You have to have a ton of respect for this thing. It is nasty and it just lurks and waits to stomp on you if you let your guard down for a second.”
Link. Not exponential and then it is.
“periods when the virus seemed to percolate until something — perhaps a superspreader event — triggered an exponential rise in infections”
Link. Weirdness.
“dispersion parameter. It is a measure of how much variation there is from person to person in transmitting a pathogen.”
Link. Epi 101.
Create no-track YouTube Links.
Link.
“Microsoft vs AWS is as real a deathmatch as Facebook vs Google or Google vs Apple.”
Link. Google’s cloud fail is amazing
“Far from being biased against Republicans in the U.S. and right-wing nationalists and authoritarians around the globe, Facebook has been biased for them.”
Link. Fundamental flaw is both-sides equivalent assumption. Republicans are more evil.
Subscription services everywhere.
Link. The poison pill is the lock-in.
Gilead to Charge $3,120 Per Patient for Remdesivir therapy.
Link. This is very reasonable.
“if you’re thinking of getting a macOS device it might be smart to get it now”
Link. Yes.
Speculations on how Indian soldiers died in border fight with China.
Link. Plausible.
“Harriet Tubman was scheduled to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill … the plan was canceled because it made President Trump mad.”
Link. No comment.
Woodrow Wilson Was Even Worse Than You Think.
Link. His father … “made his name through the publication of his popular sermon arguing for the Biblical sanction of slavery.”
America: “it will be one of the most spectacular instances of civilizational decline in world history. Every mind in the country should be bent towards the task of reversing the decline and restoring national competence.”
Link. He forgot political and governmental corruption.
CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country
Link. Still nothing on making better masks.
NYT Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker
Link. I missed this one.
The making of Mao’s famine.
Link. His leadership style feels familiar.
“after she reached out to a local television station, which devoted a segment to her charges, her health plan began investigating the bill”
Link. Price concealment in healthcare is a metric of how broken our society is. Other metrics include gun ownership, prison labor, gov-industrial employment. A reform government would track them all.
Zuckerburg surrenders to advertisers
Link. He’s lying of course, but kudos to the advertisers who withdrew.
A very bullish take on EV adoption
Link. No. Won’t be this fast.
Milwaukee home burned by confused mob.
Link. America is a violent place; our policing problems have reasons.
App Makes Mass Transit Accessible to People with Cognitive Disabilities
Link. We need Apple to treat cognitive disability like visual disability.
Racial Variation in ACE: Clinical Trial ended 2001.
Link. I can’t tell if it was published. Black/white COVID mortality ratio seems higher than any other Black/white health outcome ratio.
China is holding Canadians hostage to free a powerful criminal held by Canada.
Link. The new hegemon is unsurprisingly brutal. Canada should disregard US however, under Trump it means nothing.
“the common ancestor of all the dinosaurs must have laid soft eggs”
Link. Like turtles, not birds.
Yellowstone supervolcano news is not very 2020.
Link. Evidence of decreased risk?
“At least 113 people have been shot since May 25, eight fatally, according to Minneapolis police, with hundreds of reports of gunfire across the city, including several shootings in broad daylight”
Link. Minneapolis has a violence problem.
Nader confession: “bringing a child into the country for sexual purposes in 2000.”
Link. Weirdly sympathetic coverage.
University of Trento (Italy) Scientific Programming Lab — Python intro and beyond.
Link. Based on the environments they recommend this is a contender for best and most current intro to science-oriented Python anywhere. The English version would benefit from editing by a native speaker, no Python knowledge needed.
Mars drone: “The body of Ingenuity is about the size of a softball with four spindly legs sticking out. Two sets of blades, each about 4 feet from tip to tip, spin in opposite directions”
Link.
Carbon Copy Cloner was quietly excluding 1Password stores from backup.
Link. I don’t use Agile’s central sync service, so I had not backups. Bombich blew this one.
“If the toilet has a lid, close it before you flush so it traps the plume. Think of the lid as a mask for the toilet.”
Link. No more appreciating the show.