Link. We do more computing, but we are even more efficient. Bitcoin remains a concern.
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Breathalyzer for COVID: “breath samples from people with Covid-19 had higher levels of aldehydes”
Link. I’d be surprised if these succeed.
Economics: On police chases and library fines.
Link. Technology can reduce the externalities.
CIA “… reviewed the test flights of the U-2 reconnaissance planes and then A-12 aircraft (the predecessor of the iconic SR-71 Blackbird) in the 1960s and found that roughly half of U.F.O. sightings were attributable to those top-secret programs,”
Link. Air Force invented “natural phenomena” to cover up.
Prostate cancer Rx: “combines a compound that targets a protein on the surface of prostate cancer cells, called prostate-specific membrane antigen, or P.S.M.A., with a radioactive particle that attacks the cells”
Link. Median 4 extra months of life, but these patients were at the very end.
“44 percent of people ages 20 to 29 losing money to fraud, more than double the 20 percent of people ages 70 to 79.”
Link. Dementia mostly bites after 85, but the 44% is higher than I’d have guessed. Different scams for young.
“401 doctors in Indonesia have died… At least 20 of them were fully vaccinated with Sinovac.”
Link. Delta. Sinovac not effective.
Does Free Community College Work?
Link. Quebec has had free community college since the 1960s. Maybe earlier. It is easy to do.
Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq.
Link. “Along with the $70 million hotel, construction has begun on one of the country’s biggest shopping malls and companies are submitting bids for an international airport.”
Another Western Digital 0-Day.
Link. Use the drives but NEVER use their software.
NYC’s new mayor has a bike with a backwards fork.
Link. The disturbing bit is that nobody dares to tell him. Or he ignores what he is told. (He probably doesn’t actually ride it. Likely just a prop.)
“Republicans have introduced 216 bills (in 41 states) aimed at facilitating hardball electoral tactics. As of June, 24 of these bills had passed.”
Link. “Actually Victoria, they did know it was happening.”
“Ordinary respiratory viruses may play a bigger role in asthma attacks than previously thought.”
Link. Perhaps in heart attacks as well.
Tour de France: “average resting heart rate of 42 beats per minute for the team before the start of the Tour, and 40 bpm after the first rest day”
Link. 30mph peloton speeds.
“We understand the contours of the problem, can even articulate and tweet frantically about them, yet we constantly underestimate the likelihood of their consequences.”
Link. Could America really become a Haiti?
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Link. It still around. Does it add value? In retrospect was it a good idea?
“The core paradox of modern China — that it is a hypercapitalist success story while remaining a Communist dictatorship — is resolving itself in favor of the latter.”
Link.
“Americans have concrete reasons to be skeptical of assurances that COVID-related health care won’t empty their wallets”
Link. Executive orders?
Finder metadata: “In ~/Movies, ~/Music and ~/Pictures the Finder offers extended options according to the types of file it expects to find there.”
Link. Whoa. Lots of weirdness here.
“many companies in the private sector and federal and state government agencies remain rife with vulnerabilities that Russian actors can find and exploit.”
Link. People who live in glass houses …
“once we actually account for LBJ’s programs in the statistics, we see that the War on Poverty was actually a big success.”
Link. Rightist critics look only at income, omitting the poverty reduction interventions.
Haiti – still broken.
Link. We don’t know how to create a stable society. The proposals in the article are unpersuasive.
COVID and the brain: astrocytes, pericytes and autoantibodies.
Link. All of these things likely happen in other diseases. The autoantibodies are suspect in schizophrenia.
Big risks to unvaccinated. Clues to so many other disorders including CFS.
Sea Otter proton leak: “Sea otters are churning through calories even without a lot of physical activity because that energy goes straight into heat.”
Link. Be handy in several ways if humans could do that.
Anti-Androgen Therapy for the Coronavirus: “Brazilian trial showed a 77% reduction in mortality, which is either very impressive or too impressive”
Link. I’d bet on fake.
Sheryl Sandberg visits the underside of the bus.
Link. The knives are sharp, but she is hardly innocent.
“Mao Zedong is a hero who speaks to their despair as struggling nobodies.”
Link. “online calls for violence against capitalists … go uncensored on China’s internet.”
Similar to American non-college but in China is broader.
Space startups: “SPACs allow companies to go public earlier than a traditional initial public offering, giving investors an opportunity to cash out much earlier. The value of the public company is often based in part on growth projections rather than ac
Link. Fintech.
Minneapolis founder of Major Taylor bike club – racing and racism at 80 yo.
Link. Unusual to hear a voice like his. Lives by George Floyd memorial.
Mating rituals of the geeky millennial.
Link. Or maybe Gen Z? Curious indeed.
Vaccine reluctant: rural, also “vaccination rates were also below average for Americans under 50; Black Americans; Republicans; and people without a college degree.”
Link. “state legislators in Missouri have warned hospitals not to require employees to get vaccinated”
Does non-college alone explain all the variability? Need regression analysis.
Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers.
Link. Peculiar continuity with Trump admin. Sadly limited impact on deplorable states like MN.
“He has come to mistrust the Alzheimer’s Association, calling it “a big promoter, almost a marketer, for Biogen,”
Link. Grim.
“It took 79 days, on average, for their resting heart rates to return to normal, compared with just four days for those in the non-Covid group.”
Link. Surprising. What is physiology?
MacOS “discover which third-party kernel extensions are installed is in System Information: select the Extensions item in Software, then order the list using the Obtained From column”
Link. Kernel extensions are a leading cause of panics/OS crashes.
VITT “just under 1 per 100,000 vaccinations”
Link. The therapeutic ratio for a young person is not as good as we like.
Printed Twin Cities Bike Map Discontinued.
Link. I miss printed maps.
“95% of the stars in our galaxy are less massive than our Sun”
Link. And earth is about as massive as a rocky world can get. We are in a weird solar system.
Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices
Link. Apple ID management has been a long painful thrash.
Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug
Link. I couldn’t find a fix in Google. Perhaps because Google isn’t as useful as it once was.
Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend
Link. Not as useful as I’d expected.
What mRNA is Good For (and less good for).
Link. Vaccines mostly. He doesn’t mention auto-immune diseases.
“Jupiter is one such planet; despite being three times the mass of Saturn, it’s only ~15% larger, as its atoms are gravitationally compressed.”
Link. Damn. I didn’t know that. Great article. “Earth, the largest rocky planet in our entire Solar System, is almost as “super” as a rocky planet can get.”
Lebanon’s collapse: “unsustainable monetary policies that finally collapsed, leaving the banks largely insolvent”
Link. I wonder if they will dollerize.
Murdoch’s legacy: “I can only guess that the destructive editorial policy of Fox News is driven by a deep-seated vein of anti-establishment/contrarian thinking in Rupert that, at age 90, is not going to change.”
Link. Brain rot and the bloody curse of the “contrarian”.
6 Training Rules For Over-40 Lifters
Link. The grip stuff is silly, but the rest is very good.
Apple fought China – and quietly won.
Link. The party didn’t care that much and the corporations buckled.
How to recognise and diagnose kernel panics.
Link. Save for reference. Our M1 Air on early Big Sur had a lot of them.
Boeing’s 737Max Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System
Link. Wikipedia article needs a rewrite; as written Boeing looks very bad.
The Underside of the Aducanumab Approval
Link. A legitimate scandal at the FDA.