Link. They are not immune to problems we have. I think we use more PA and NP though, fewer MD.
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“saving glut forces interest rates to fall, which makes the rich even wealthier. Inequality begets inequality. It is a vicious cycle”
Link. Wealth tax, estate tax, etc.
CDC talks about “firearm” something something harm reduction.
Link. Of course I want guns to go away, but I also want cars and television to go away.
“virtual collaboration is like evaporated milk with 60% of its water removed: safer, mostly up to the job but a sterile version of face-to-face interaction that leaves an unsatisfying aftertaste”
Link. Primates need proximity.
Brian Faughnan – A Lost Person: Still lost, not forgotten.
Link. Think of him often.
Irisin “hormone produced by muscles during exercise can cross into the [mouse] brain and enhance the health and function of neurons,”
Link. I need to redouble my 800 minutes of weekly exercise. (Squeak)
How Mexico Helped The Times Get Its Journalists Out of Afghanistan.
Link. “Mexican officials, unlike their counterparts in the United States, were able to cut through the red tape of their immigration system”
“Unvaccinated workers have to wear masks and will soon have to take weekly coronavirus tests. Eventually, they will have to pay $200 in additional health care costs.”
Link. Mandates are toothless in many states due to religious exemptions. This is better.
Deflecting an Asteroid Before It Hits Earth – nudge but do not blast.
Link. Lots of little taps.
Pfizer myocarditis risk: “16- and 17-year-old vaccinated boys could be as high as 1 in 5,000.”
Link. Higher than most vaccine risks but still worth assuming. Approval for under 12 is not guaranteed however.
Pakistan’s “win”.
Link. The winner is India.
Flight Attendants: crazed customers, not enough staff.
Link. Society looks normal, but cracks are everywhere.
Britain – no mask mandate for children.
Link. “More than 90 percent of school staff members had received at least one vaccine dose by the end of June”
Physicians running COVID cons.
Link. A great example of why we don’t license nationally. Some states have lousy boards.
“China is smoothing out the rough edges with a chain saw.”
Link. Excellent review of Xi’s attack on tech.
Why Apple Asks for Your Other Device’s Password
Link. Undocumented.
“That Einstein’s equations can be rewritten thermodynamically implies that space and time are also emergent properties”
Link. Verlinde 2010.
“Tim Cook’s 4 a.m. starts are the stuff of legend”
Link. At his desk by 4 am. He … is … insane.
Comparing MagSafe Battery Packs.
Link. Cyclists need for Strava tracking.
“Apple Maps received additional AR features that are perfectly suited for smart glasses.”
Link. I expect Apple Car tech will be AR smart glasses.
“the “Parent” (read:credit card holder) of a family sharing account can’t see, let alone cancel, any subscriptions a minor on the account has purchased”
Link. iOS family management is a dumpster fire.
“proposed chartering an Industrial Finance Corporation, a bank owned by the U.S. government that would fill the “manufacturing gap” and finance high-tech production nationwide.”
Link. A Bill.
Nebraska recruiting particularly dim nurses.
Link. Beyond the COVID risks, they are selecting for bad nurses.
“The Sinai land bridge was crossable several times, as early as 246,000 years ago, and the southern strait had even more favorable windows, including the period 65,000 years ago.”
Link. Humans first left Africa long ago.
The phenotypes of cognition don’t line up with the fictional domains of the brain.
Link. We need new names for brain functional domains.
“Any academic department is a rats nest of perceived grievances, real grievances, ancient feuds, entitled snobs and desperate strivers.”
Link. Academia has longer term forced relationships than other disciplines.
“left 1Password for iCloud Keychain over two years ago”.
Link. I also want to exit 1PW.
“QuickTime Player name the file with .mov but use the H.264 format, so you can just rename the file with .mp4”
Link. Lots of heads hit tabletop.
Coase’s revenge: twilight of the gig economy.
Link. “traditional companies still have a good reason to exist”
“The city had been expecting the protests in the recent days but declined to actively intervene, citing among its reasons a lack of resources.”
Link. When police go on strike.
What is the average mile time of the GENERAL population for a 30 year old male?
Link. A famous example of bad estimations.
“Her brother-in-law gave her a vicious kick”
Link. What percent of Afghans are pro-Taliban?
“anyone ready to go beyond Mojave should now be preparing for Monterey, not Catalina or Big Sur”
Link. I have been seen. Powerful vote for Monterey. I have grown fond of Mojave …
“OCR in Live Text is better than any that I’ve used.”
Link. Monterey unusually appealing.
“Tesla has systematically pursued competitive advantage by sacrificing safety with its design and deployment of Autopilot and Full-Self Driving.”
Link. Worked under GOP rule.
“they had ample time to prepare for a Taliban takeover of the country — it might even be a couple of years until the group was in position to regain power”
Link. I’d love to read a solid review of why our analysts were so wrong. I suspect we have huge problems in our military and intelligence community.
“the drive to keep the door open for foreign money is reining in Taliban extremism”
Link. Dispense bits of money so long as the refugee flow continues.
Facebook “Widely Shared Content” report is a poke in the eye.
Link. It is true, however, that humanity is vacuous.
Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave – use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog.
Link. Chrome has been going downhill for a while.
Safari on US Bank: “our system is not cooperating”
Link. Weird bug since works on a different user account but cache clear failed. For now the workaround is Chrome.
Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave – use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog
Link. I’m done with Chrome. Such an annoying product.
“researchers planted a single Roundup-resistant Palmer amaranth plant in each of four fields of genetically modified cotton. In three years, the weeds choked out the cotton, and the crop failed.”
Link. The good news is Amaranth seeds are edible.
“the data he expects to be released soon is from studies of two doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, rather than an mRNA booster.”
Link. We don’t understand the immune system well enough to mix and match if we have actual data at hand.
Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers are not very useful.
Link. Sometimes hurt, sometimes help, mostly not worth the bother.
When Sea Snakes Attack “it’s just a lovesick boy looking for a girlfriend and making a rather foolish mistake,”
Link. Hold still and let the fanged lethal monster lick you.
Exercise for Olds: year 63 (CrossFit and so on).
Link. Personal status. Meeting CDC activity guidelines I think.
Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay.
Link. “An employee leaving San Francisco for London can expect a 20% pay cut.”
Now do telework.
“the brain, which is smaller than a rice grain, remained unnoticed”
Link. 310 million year fossil
“The doctrine I taught was a) Western armies always lose guerilla wars in the ‘Third World’, and b) it never really matters.”
Link. He means “matters” in a peculiar geopolitical sense sense.
“risk of developing breast cancer was 40 percent to 60 percent greater among women with the PALB2 mutation”
Link. By comparison smoking increases lung cancer risk roughly 2000%. The 50% increase with PALB2 is not as large as I would have guessed.
The base rate of breast cancer is much higher than non-smoker lung cancer risk however.