Link. What is the maternal mortality disparity for college educated? I want a deeper dive.
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Working on Internet Explorer 3 and Google Chrome
Link. One of these is much better.
“21 percent of Republicans who favored some level of effort to overcome racial bias.”
Link. Why are the 21% still Republicans?
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Crackpottery.
Link. How to ID crackpot: “detailed mechanistic explanation of how azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine work together as an effective therapy against the coronavirus”
Tesla’s Autopilot finally investigated.
Link. “G.M.’s system uses GPS positioning to restrict its use to major highways that do not have oncoming or cross traffic, intersections, pedestrians or cyclists.”
Saturn’s core: “makes up 60 percent of the planet’s radius”
Link. This is very Caltech.
The Afghanistan occupation and the Japan occupation.
Link. I agree.
“Among vaccinated adults, “the symptoms we are seeing now are much more commonly identified with the common cold”
Link. DO NOT GO TO WORK WITH A COLD.
GOP shifts from CO2 denialism to CO2 nihilism.
Link. The worst of humanity.
“While they failed to do so in an attempted 1934 coup, Fronczak explains, street fighters learned about the contours of fascism once their power as a violent street force was established.”
Link. Fascism is always with us.
“In neighboring Minneapolis, the police department explicitly banned “warrior” training.”
Link. Grossman has been a one man disaster.
“Even with health officials saying the hospital system could collapse in the coming days, Gov. Tate Reeves (R) reiterated Wednesday that the state would not have a mask mandate.”
Link. Don’t live in Mississippi.
“an initial deck collapse that extended beyond those key columns, where the deck joined the building’s facade, could have overloaded the columns and caused them to buckle”
Link. Changes to construction designs likely. Also, civil engineering is hard and scary.
“Buying those stablecoins would be tantamount to having money on deposit directly at the Fed.”
Link. The end of anarchy.
“McConnell is the greatest traitor to this country since Robert E. Lee.”
Link. McConnell is weak, American fascism is strong.
MN: “Children may be exempt if they have a notarized statement noting a parent or guardian’s “conscientiously held belief” against the child’s vaccination.”
Link. That’s for measles! We will not get a child vaccine mandate for COVID.
“it seems equally unlikely that an increasingly urbanizing, multicultural nation will continue to accept being governed by an ever-smaller white, rural minority.”
Link. I wonder how it breaks.
How the Pandemic Ends.
Link. My only change would have been to focus on relatively comfortable masks that also protect wearer and reduce innoculum. They exist now.
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage.
Link. Originally 2006. Positive reinforcement conditioning for spouses. Handy reference.
Mark Sertich: Oldest hockey player, died 2020 age 99.
Link. “When I’ve got an injury, I lay it back a little bit, but I like to get into the action. I believe that my immune system should be able to take care of it.” I’m no Sertich, but I do kind of work my injuries the same way.
Exporting (iCloud) Keychain and Safari credentials to a CSV file
Link. Done by a senior Apple dev
The 6 most corrupt states in the country.
Link. I’d say lack of party competition is a cause, but Utah not famously corrupt.
“As first realized by Alexander Friedmann way back in 1922, a Universe filled with equal amounts of “stuff” everywhere could not be both stable and static; it must either be expanding or contracting.”
Link. The 1920s were amazing for physics.
“medical advisors recommend vaccination against COVID-19 for all eligible players, coaches, officials and staff; but this decision remains a personal choice.”
Link. USA hockey is not requiring vaccination for players or coaches.
Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage.
Link. “This is a security disaster.”
No way Apple refuses China’s demands.
“decathlon 1500-meter race, the reason it’s hard for its participants is that they’re not really trained for it”
Link. Neat discussions. Boxing, gymnastics and decathlon make list of hardest summer Olympic events
XKCD and the 1982 Exxon report on greenhouse gas warming.
Link. Damn that was one fine prediction. Has to be partly luck, but still. Also, the GOP has been trash for a long time.
“I was there the first day we did Six Sigma, it made no sense to me.” Imelt, GE CEO after Welch.
Link. Now HRO. The article is quite balanced really.
Your mobile carrier sells your secrets.
Link. Want to have a secret? Don’t carry a phone.
MTFX for money transfers
Link. With checks now much harder to use I’m told this is one of the best ways to send money between Canada and US
“I wouldn’t have wished him dead, and I’m glad he’s no longer able to tell other people not to get vaccinated. It’s too bad the former was required for the latter, but, well. Here we are.”
Link. If you work in tobacco I despise you less if you smoke.
China easily defeats US in simulated defense of Taiwan.
Link. Will be ready by 2030 now.
Carbon Copy Cloner: “OneDrive may delete online-only files from the cloud when you restore a OneDrive folder from a backup”
Link. Bombich couldn’t replicate the bug but they still suggest: “consider whether you should continue to include your OneDrive folder in your backups”
Amazon drone delivery: ‘resembled “organised chaos”, run by managers that were “detached from reality”’
Link. Reminded me of the early Segway hype.
“scientists also eased back a bit on the likelihood of the absolute worst climate catastrophes”
Link. There is an optimist case if one squints real hard.
Amazon Third-Party Sellers: “finding ways to get in touch with buyers and hound them about editing or deleting their negative reviews
Link. I rarely buy anything third party.
“by combining computational audio with the iPod Pro’s beamforming microphones, Conversation Boost is able to focus on the person talking in front of you, while also using Ambient Noise Reduction”
Link. Interested.
“Airlines, which have banned more than 2,700 customers for refusing to wear masks, don’t share information about customers who cause problems.”
Link. Umm, why not?
“It’s fuzzy, but the people who are getting hit are more apt to be people who were vaccinated very early”
Link. US might do worse with Delta because we vaccinated early?
“soon as he got the all-clear, Rosen scheduled interviews with the congressional committees and with the inspector general of the Department of Justice to tell as much as he could of what he had seen before anyone tried to stop him”
Link. GOP was wise to oppose investigation.
Does America really lose all its wars?
Link. No. But “in general, war simply costs a huge amount of money with little possibility of gain.”
NYT on religious exemption: “And the number of people who could successfully petition for a religious exemption from a vaccine mandate is probably small.”
Link. That’s so sweet. The real sting is mandatory testing that is paid for by employee.
Unvaccinated: “nursing home workers, mainly women of color”
Link. Main reason mandates are a sensitive topic.
Schwinn IC 4 / Bowflex / Nautilus cycle trainer – review with Zwift and Peloton apps.
Link. We’ve used it 10 months with Zwift and iPad. Good purchase.
“American gunmakers knowingly facilitate the sale of arms to criminal groups in Mexico by marketing their wares in ways that appeal to drug traffickers and refusing to put responsible restrictions on sales.”
Link. The “widow maker” is marketed to women with abusive husbands.
“incidence of myocarditis in boys ages 12 to 17 who had Covid-19 was 876 per million; in girls of the same age group with Covid-19, the incidence was 213 cases per million”
Link. 10/million in older. COVID thought much higher rate.
Metabolic syndrome and cognitive disability – 300 calories a day with Zwift and a Schwinn IC-4
Link. Nine months of 300 cal/day. Not enough to lose weight, but has stopped the gain.
“Cointool. After a few minutes of tweaking, and about $300 in fees, I pressed a button. Instantly, 21 million coins were minted. I christened them Idiot Coins.”
Link. Can’t buy Fentanyl.
Rent subsidies: “$3 billion out of $46 billion had been deployed by the states and cities that got the money.”
Link. Huge fraud potential meets a bureaucratic system designed to deny benefits.
“if the F.D.A. soon grants full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, as expected, a change to its emergency authorization might be unnecessary. Physicians would then be free to simply prescribe an additional shot to immunocompromised patients.”
Link. I think to any patient but no insurance coverage for immunocompetent.