Link. I think to any patient but no insurance coverage for immunocompetent.
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“if his company instituted a vaccine mandate, he would likely comply.”
Link. Shame, blame, apply pressure. It works.
“President Abraham Lincoln knew he must land a crushing blow on the South or lose the upcoming presidential election.”
Link. We forget how close the south came to a successful partition with the likely preservation of chattel slavery into the 20th century.
“macOS currently has built-in support for around 15 different file systems”
Link. APFS really is good work.
“These miracle vaccines are incredibly complex products that would have been hard to develop and produce in any one country, even one as large as the United States. A global market made it possible to deliver all the specialized inputs that are saving tho
Link. Krugman gets to (justly) highlight his primary contribution to economic theory.
“2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts gutted the provision of the law requiring that states with histories of voter discrimination get approval from the Department of Justice before they changed their v
Link. Roberts’ obituaries will emphasize that decision.
“Buy Now, Pay Later” retail loans – who pays?
Link. “Klarna charges vendors “up to” 5.99 percent of each transaction.” It’s less of a scam overall than I’d have guessed. Basically everyone pays a few percent more to cover defaults of BNPL users.
“The majority of children who contract covid-19 will be asymptomatic or have mild disease. But I contrast this with the reality of being a clinician at the bedside…”
Link. A good lay review of pediatric COVID. Vaccinate 12+ now. With such a contagious disease I wonder how much masking will actually reduce infection.
“MRI findings suspicious for COVID-19-related disseminated leukoencephalopathy (CRDL), which is characterized by extensive confluent or multifocal white matter lesions”
Link. Can I get my booster now?
“You can turn on a recovery key (has been available as part of 2FA but not in iOS/Mac settings like this before) or add a recovery contact.”
Link. Google has better support for the problem of mortality.
Patent troll loses to Apple on appeal.
Link. Personalized Media Communications used a submarine patent. Incredible this had to be appealed.
Safari is dying.
Link. The bug fix cycle is inexcusable.
“It’s about making you think it’s not about the money for us, when it’s actually all about the money for us, and specifically not about the money for you.”
Link. Today’s humor.
“DeSantis’s popularity has fallen behind that of a Democratic rival, Charlie Crist, in the 2022 governor’s race. Forty-nine percent of Floridians disapprove of DeSantis’s job performance, while only 44% approve.”
Link. Advocating for COVID is strangely unpopular.
“Among modern Republicans, the idea of showing “strength” is wailing on your video podcast about a young gold-medal winning female gymnast when she hits a rough patch.”
Link. Real men are Dems.
Apple App Store Promotes Rip-Off Apps.
Link. Kill it.
China meets Delta.
Link. For once China-trouble predictions come true. Bad vaccine and limits of citizen stress. Expect supply chain issues.
“most world champions sample one sport after another as children and gain mastery in their chosen activities considerably later than other, more focused young athletes whom they eventually go on to defeat.”
Link. Not expected.
“Their 7-year-old son still sends texts to his father’s phone, DuPreez said. “The very first one was, ‘Dad, are you still alive?’”
Link. Get vaccinated.
COVID kids: 4.4% symptoms over 4w vs 1% for other virus
Link. 1.8% 8 weeks vs. adult 4.5% 8 weeks. I don’t see how this is reassuring, the 8 week numbers are almost half of adult risk.
New thrill for right: “Portugal’s fascist-adjacent dictator António de Oliveira Salazar”
Link. Orban too. They are being honest at least.
“Chaperone proteins recognize common structural features and folds, and guide the developing protein into familar territory.”
Link. Modern biology learning opportunity.
Sabine on Tegmark: “The idea has more recently been given a modern formulation by Max Tegmark who called it the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.”
Link. Natural opponents. I enjoyed Tegmark’s book.
“political patterns in America look much like those Orbán used to gather power into his own hands”
Link. Meanwhile American journalists want desperately to believe the GOP is a sane political party.
“The cutting-edge system was in use, searching for signs of the couple in Mexico, but it does not appear to be what led authorities to them.”
Link. It was the reward money. The “community group” supporting them isn’t the brightest bunch.
Details on the ISS spin.
Link. Feels understated.
“Apple’s App Tracking Transparency neither stops tracking, nor provides any real transparency, and instead gives users a false sense of privacy.”
Link. As expected.
Lindsey Graham exposed much of Senate to COVID.
Link. Hope they are all vaccinated.
“They then took this mirror-world polymerase enzyme and used it to make mirror-world DNA sequences.”
Link. Nanotech toolkit expands.
A third of white-tailed deer tested in a survey were exposed to the coronavirus.
Link. Probably through another animal vector. It’s a very cool virus.
QR codes are the cookies of the material world.
Link. Same tracking and profiling.
Irritable bowel syndrome update.
Link. I suspect many different interacting causes including neurology of the bowel. It’s not one disease.
“The number of college graduates in China rose by 73 percent in the past decade.”
Link. Too many knowledge workers, not enough knowledge work drives China’s culture of extreme competition.
Trump’s attack on federal science has left wounded agencies.
Link. The war isn’t over. The GOP is virulently anti-science now.
“Big Sur’s updates have become inefficient to the point of absurdity.”
Link.
“it’s gratifying to know I’ve done something that Goddess Snow approves of.” More like this, please., please.
Link. Humanity.
“Sadism. Research shows that many trolls are sadists, who delight in making other people feel uncomfortable.”
Link. Rerun of a Noahpinion essay — I confess I haven’t thought enough about how the net enabled a golden age of sadism.
“Welwitschia grows only two leaves — and continuously — in a lifetime that can last millenniums.”
Link. “When it does stop growing, it’s dead.”
Explainer: Snapshots in APFS.
Link. APFS has become impressive. Now Apple needs to replace SMB.
“Twisties” in gymnastics.
Link. It can end careers.
M1 MacBook screen crack defect.
Link. Air and Pro. Sure sounds like a product defect.
US cumulative GDP projections: “$295 trillion over the next 10 years”
Link. Remember the Singularity?
“For Chinese students hoping to get a spot at a prestigious university, everything hinges on the gaokao”
Link. Insanity.
“Osterholm’s plea for humility does have policy implications. It argues for prioritizing vaccination over every other strategy.”
Link. He has been a few times in the pandemic and has become more cautious. I felt same way with SARS – do not understand.
“Ms. Dingley’s identity was confirmed through DNA testing after a single bone had been found close to her last known location.”
Link. But no gear. That is weird.
Disability benefits: “structurally difficult to be on S.S.I. and not live in poverty.”
Link. The bureaucracy and paperwork is incomprehensible.
For history: Trump’s attempt to seize power gets more details.
Link. “The department found that the error rate of ballot counting in Michigan was 0.0063 percent, not the 68 percent that the president asserted.”
The crisis was real. He’s still trying.
“33 percent of Black men have felony records”
Link. Wait. Stop. Whoa. This is a throwaway line in an article on American injustice. I don’t believe it.
SK: “34.9 percent of its 52 million people having received at least one dose”
Link. That’s more than I thought. I think Japan might be less.
Women Surgeons: “42 percent had suffered a pregnancy loss, more than twice the rate of the general population”
Link. Age at pregnancy and age of partner would be a factor, but that’s a big delta for a healthy cohort. Unexpected.