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Protein Folding, 2020 – Derek Lowe

Posted on November 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s more restrained than me but puts into context of last decade of progress. Huge promise across this area.

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AlphaFold: Google claims ability to model protein folding accurately.

Posted on November 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If true this is an earthquake class event.

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App Store apps failing to install on High Sierra

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Apple admits nothing.

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How Sidney Powell veered off the rails.

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I want an MRI and a PET scan.

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“In its extreme form, which is what we’ll talk about here, narcissism acquires antisocial (psychopathic) features”

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Reads as though an experienced therapist contibuted. Desire and belief merge.

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“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so that, when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There have been so many bad Presidents. We might do better with a lottery.

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WaPo digs into the Trump-GOP 2020 attack on democracy.

Posted on November 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “you were treated like a dog,” Trump complained, using one of his favorite put-downs, even though many people treat dogs well, like members of their own families.”

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Byrne and his MAGA hacker team: Saving Trump.

Posted on November 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s almost certainly schizophrenic.

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“travel extremely close to the speed of light: overtaking a left-handed neutrino so that its spin would appear to reverse from your perspective. Would it suddenly display the properties of a right-handed antineutrino?”

Posted on November 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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Salvaging the EPA.

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If Trump had won it would have died.

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macOS Big Sur Known Issues.

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Why update before these are fixed?

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Francis essay.

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome.” Good to know. Everyone getting dings in on Trumpo now.

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The future of COVID control: adjusting vaccines

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It will move in and out of animal reservoirs and new vaccines will be needed.

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“Derek Kaye, who ran a feet of food trucks before the pandemic stunted his business, switched gears this summer to start NYC Propane Delivery”

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Respect.

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Crampons, Gaiters & MICROspikes®: Winter Hiking Traction

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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Thanksgiving – Sean Carroll: Black hole entropy.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Read the predecessors. (Also, I’ve been reading him a ong time.)

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Autoimmune Disorders don’t seem to change COVID-19 risks.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Might be that people with disorders are more careful, or that they tend to have hair trigger immune systems that do well with COVID-19.

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“… a new iOS kernel exploitation technique that turns a one-byte controlled heap overflow directly into a read/write primitive for arbitrary physical addresses, all while completely sidestepping current mitigations”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “I don’t think this technique represents the current state-of-the-art … it might represent the state-of-the-art of a few years ago.”

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“Exxon is expecting oil prices to fall over most of the next decade”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Peak Oil came and went and we barely noticed.

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AWS outage: “one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. You can always rely on people to do things perfectly every time.

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“China now reserves the right to arrest Hong Kong activists anywhere in the world, and it’s trying hard not to let Hong Kongers escape to countries like Canada”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Taiwan needs a nuclear deterrent.

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NYT covers Veteran suicide risk and never mentions the gun problem.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Removing guns from home is most important intervention and politically unacceptable to advocate.

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“proposed change would scale back the required quarantine period to between one week and 10 days, followed by a test for the virus”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Especially for health care workers.

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Poison rat: “chew chunks of the plants and spit them back out into their fur, anointing themselves with a form of chemical armor that most likely protects them from predators like hyenas and wild dog”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Limited by the tree availability.

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Hospital attacks: “unusual demands, combined with the coordination of the attacks, make “it seem that it was meant to be a disruptive attack” rather than a profit-seeking one”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hospital accreditation needs to include ability to recover from attacks.

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Illegal Tampering by Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution.

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. America has too many assholes. The best response is to tax trucks more.

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What Ever Happened to the Vaping Lung Disease?

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good overview. Vit E cutting THC main cause. Regulation needed.

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macOS Finder is deeply confused.

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This is ridiculous.

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Acorn and Big Sur

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. My version of Acorn is pretty old but my needs are limited. Big Sur will bea big update.

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“Apple says in its tech specs the M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook only support up to 1 external display”

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like it will get fixed.

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“Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopath. A real-life Bond villain.”

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Zuck is CEO of a tobacco company. He needs to market addiction and hide the disease it causes.

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“Hahn, in Topol’s telling, had come to a decision: He was willing to be dismissed rather than serve as a presidential puppet.”

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Azar a villain here, but there will be other stories and books.

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“614G roughly a 20 percent advantage in its exponential rate of growth”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A substantial “improvement”.

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“the country had experienced a “‘Lord of the Flies’ moment” that revealed just how willing some powerful actors were to enable an undisguised effort to sabotage a free and fair election.”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. GOP is a values-free political party.

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Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. One of the original Trump-Russia attacks on HRC.

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“He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Wayne Gretzky too. Also Steve Jobs. See? You don’t need a college degree to be middle class. (Also, see rule, proof by exception.)

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“former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who said on Fox News that the theft is being “financed by people like George Soros,”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Once he passed as an “intellectual”. He was always a vicious fraud. Remember that the next time a Paul Ryan rises; standards on the right are low.

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Noahpinion blog returns.

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I still had old inactive Feed in feedbin. This must not be missed. Reeder picked up feed easily.

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Facebook: “the new algorithm successfully reduced the visibility of objectionable content. But it also lowered the number of times users opened Facebook”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. So they turned off the new algorithm. Their business model requires evil.

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“The United States is in deep trouble, but democracy isn’t.”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. True, America’s constitution was a poor choice. I think Dyer is too optimistic about democracy globally however.

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Metallic Monolith Discovered in Utah canyon.

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Now that’s weird.

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Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria treat: “Zokinvy, a farnesyltransferase inhibitor, is an oral medication that helps prevent the buildup of defective progerin or progerin-like protein”

Posted on November 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Been studied for over 11 years. Sounds like not a cure, but a help.

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“the degree to which the president is now pinpointing voters of color for disenfranchisement is striking even by modern Republican standards”

Posted on November 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Clarence Thomas is supportive.

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“Trump’s bad con continues to show how easy it would be to stage a good one. Then we would call it a coup.”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Is he really done?

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“30,000 ventilators over four months at an idled car parts plant in Indiana”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Telehealth tech can offset local specialist shortage. Some vent settings are easy.

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Can We Find Out If Gravitons Exist?

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We *might* come up with a clever way to show gravity and/or space is quantized, but gravitons seem out of our reach.

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“for the next two to three months, no activity is truly safe unless you’re at home with your family.”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Not quite true. If you have had COVID it looks like most things are pretty safe.

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High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa – International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Virology is the hot science now.

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High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa – International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Virology is the hot science now.

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COVID: South Dakota vs New Mexico.

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Be good to read an academic comparison.

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