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“Authorization does not guarantee appropriation.”
Link. A terrific tutorial on how Federal spending works, including the infrastructure bill.
Save cognitively disabled from well-intended but stupid-smart progressives.
Link. “Conviction of some advocates and policymakers that larger settings like Misericordia”
Good intentions and denial of reality do not go well together.
COVID warning was his final wish.
Link. Kept putting it off, feared side-effects of vaccine. Lots of guys in 40s think they are young. (Forty is not young.)
APFS Volume Names: “a bug in Disk Utility, which fails to normalise volume names to Form D as the Finder does. But there’s also a bug in Spotlight indexing which results in volumes with Form C names not being indexed at all”
Link. Computers haven’t been able to handle English language paragraphs since about 1980. So don’t expect this to be fixed.
“despite starting from a very humble base, Hispanics are treading the same upward path that American immigrant groups always tread”
Link. The fall in Hispanic high school dropout from 1996 to 2016 is remarkable.
“That’s what it takes to make a new universe. 10 kilograms.” (of false vacuum)
Link. The key is energy is not conserved if space changes over time. There is such a thing as a free lunch.
“Delta is presenting with symptoms closer to those for the common cold than those seen with other variants.”
Link. Less anosmia? Will Delta end the pandemic? Read this one.
An Introduction to Dfinity and the Internet Computer.
Link. “Since 2016, Dfinity has been focused on building the “Internet Computer”, a decentralized blockchain network that aims to expand the functionality of the internet.”
“Thirty percent of South Korea’s population have received one vaccine dose and 9.5 percent are fully vaccinated,”
Link. Much better than Japan or China. Wonder how Taiwan compared.
“recently completed a study of cats and dogs living in households with humans who had Covid, found several cases of cats with severe symptoms”
Link. Project your cat by getting vaccinated.
Joe Rogan Profile.
Link. Long but scannable. A lot like Limbaugh.
SolarWinds hack was “S.V.R., a competing Russian intelligence agency that was an offshoot of the K.G.B.”
Link. Lots of small details in this article.
Protein Aggregation Diseases.
Link. Especially brain. So much room for basic science research. My bet is that amyloid can be a physiologic response in aging neurons.
“there are 15 different types of fish that can be called tuna by the F.D.A.”
Link.
“Unlike the 2017 collision of two neutron stars, telescopes were unable to spot any particles of light from the explosions. The black holes appear to have been big enough to swallow the neutron stars quickly.”
Link. All in gravity waves.
“Trump increasingly looks like President Richard M. Nixon, whose support eroded as more and more sordid information about his White House came to light.”
Link. He is fading. I don’t think it’s new information though. It’s boredom. Americans need new blood.
“Washington remains wired for the GOP”
Link. It must be the parties.
Command line recovery tools for macOS
Link. They run as root and many found in sbin.
“the upshot of that grand theory is that countries have to basically wait in line to get rich”
Link. Yikes. New idea and not a happy one.
“When China overhauled Hong Kong’s election system to purge candidates it deemed disloyal, Beijing called the change “perfecting Hong Kong’s electoral system.”
Link. DeSantis could write the history policies.
“On the right side, he simply wrote: 193,707,721 × 761,838,257,287. He spent the next hour performing the multiplication of these two numbers by hand”
Link. Before calculators, finding a Mersenne prime.
Orbit Will Publish Two-Volume Companion to Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series
Link. Delayed but still happening.
How Roth IRAs became a huge tax dodge for billionaires.
Link. So much corruption.
“Angela Gonzalez and her daughter Devon, 16, fell from their ninth floor condo to the fifth floor when the building snapped apart. Angela broke her pelvis yet somehow managed to get up from the tangled concrete and pull Devon with her.”
Link.
A response to Scott Alexander on Jewish achievement.
Link. Well done. Alexander appears to be making a case against reparations.
Infused CRISPR gene editing for transthyretin amyloidosis.
Link. Early results positive. Amazingly positive.
GOP mostly, some Dem: “faux bill notices and official-looking correspondence; bogus offers to match donations and hidden links to unsubscribe”
Link. “half of people in their 80s or older have either … cognitive impairment … or … dementia.”
A *lot* of businesses live off the bottom 15% of cognition. GOP certainly, but all businesses that advertise on daytime TV.
“Nearly every SARS case since the original epidemic has been due to lab leaks — six incidents in three countries, including twice in a single month from a lab in Beijing. In one instance, the mother of a lab worker died.”
Link. Regulation and oversight needed.
“White noncollege voters are almost three-fifths of white voters in suburban areas and they shifted against Trump by over 5 points.”
Link. Men primarily. Non-college whites are biggest voting block.
“Centralizing app distribution in the App Store makes it a magnet for fraud and scams, because it’s much easier to game the App Store than traditional marketing and distribution.”
Link. 100,000 apps a week. I’m guessing 99,900 are scams and Apple catches 95% of the scams.
“if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3”
Link. I swear I have seen them.
“success of Shortcuts on macOS will be largely determined by third-party app developers”
Link. Not encouraging.
Michael Yeadon: former Pfizer VP and wealthy anti-vaxxer
Link. Source of fears that RNA vaccine will impair fertility. He is broadly anti-vaccine and also a COVID denialist.
“My Book Live NAS owners are reporting that their drives have been totally erased”
Link. This will be educational.
“he likely lacked a chin. They say that his brain was about 7 percent larger than the average brain of a living human.”
Link. Another human vs Denisovan, coexisting with Neanderthal. “ The authors of the new studies argue that Dragon Man, the Tibetan jaw and the Dali skull all belong to a single lineage — one that is the closest branch to our own species.”
Remembering the Whole Earth Catalog.
Link. I have the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Saving it for a museum.
“undercover operation by conservatives to infiltrate progressive groups, political campaigns and the offices of Democratic as well as moderate Republican elected officials during the 2020 election cycle”
Link. These people need jobs.
CDC developing nootkatone insect repellent.
Link. If it works this would be a historic discovery.
Novavax is “the best COVID-19 vaccine we have.”
Link.
Don’t use Live Photos.
Link. Not worth it.
“by the time SARS-CoV-2 reached the market, it had been circulating for awhile in Wuhan or beyond”
Link.
No causal associations between childhood family income and subsequent psychiatric disorders, substance misuse and violent crime arrests.
Link. Points finger at genetic traits leading to both these disorders and poverty.
“Standing under a warm shower spray or soaking in a hot bathtub for 10 minutes or so after a sweltering workout prompts our bodies to continue acclimatizing”
Link. Yikes.
“most people with an addiction simply “grow out of it.”
Link. Cocaine average 4y
Blood Shortage in the U.S: “our hospitals are now asking for more than expected.””
Link. Catch-up surgeries, more road crashes.
Google Messages Adds End-to-End Encryption
Link. Michael links to Apple’s non-encryption. A concession to the FBI.
“She had fallen some 10,000 feet, nearly two miles. Her row of seats is thought to have landed in dense foliage, cushioning the impact. Juliane was the sole survivor of the crash.”
Link. What happened after.
“raising the height of a bumper by a foot doubles the amount of force that’s delivered into a person’s body during a crash”
Link. Pedestrians (and bicyclists) are being killed by fashion and distraction. Tax vehicles based on pedestrian risk scores.
Our Constitution doesn’t require a popular vote for president.
Link. Explains why GOP is moving to state legislators appointing electors. Why didn’t I read this earlier?