Link. Addicted to assholery. Human are terrible.
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COVID tales: rootless capitalists abroad.
Link. Almost all single, mostly 1-2%, well connected, and likely work really long hours. Curious lives.
Animal COVID: “viruses are the leading cause of death in the chimps at Kibale. Even the human common cold can be lethal
Link. Dogs so far do not get sick and have not passed to humans. That we know of.
The story of Fauci and US disease defenses.
Link. Deeply knowledgeable journalist veteran of the HIV era. Fauci in his dotage works 18 hours a day.
Time Machine waits 10 days to tell you that your backup isn’t working.
Link. Ten days. If you ever wanted proof that TM is not a serious backup solution! I can’t find a way to make the warning 1 day — which tells me backup is a lost cause.
SR-71: “Fuel was seeping through the joints, raining down on the hangar floor.”
Link. Expansion joints leaked at room temp. This is old school web hobbyist stuff.
Election 2020 was the Y2K replay we hoped for.
Link. Danger recognized early, intense planning and preparation, disaster averted.
How Biden Won the Presidency.
Link. Urban riots were a huge boost for Trump … but Trump fumbled that gift and Biden handled the challenge. I think without the riots Dems might have taken Senate.
“important next step is for the head of the Government Services Administration to rule that the election results are final, enabling Biden’s transition team to expand its work and gain access to government funds. Biden officials are prepared for legal
Link. Trump appointee.
Oliver Sacks: “When my father asked him why he earned one-tenth of what his colleagues did, Oliver admitted to never charging patients for visits.”
Link. Shared on the nephew’s own passing.
What we need to do about COVID now.
Link. 90%. Hazard pay, paid time off, better masks, smarter masking, air flow. Omitted approaches to outdoor socializing and activities in cold climates.
“Entire offices that do not have prevention protocols in place are being wiped out by the virus.”
Link. North Dakota is an experiment now.
The Trump I remember.
Link. Including two big things he got right.
“He’s afraid. He’s the most insecure, afraid person ever. He’s too afraid to be president. He’s afraid to exercise power. He’s afraid to do the job.”
Link. Plausible but oversimplified.
“there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable Earths” in our galaxy.
Link. Fermi fans know this could be bad news.
Transition: “So far, officials in Mr. Trump’s government have worked in good faith, according to Biden officials”
Link.
“Trump endorsement a hot commodity for years to come.”
Link. It’s his party.
“He would get his supporters to vote in person, and then he’d seek to invalidate millions upon millions of mailed ballots on the grounds that they shouldn’t be counted for too many days after Election Day.”
Link. Sabotaged himself.
Finder comments: “Apple duplicated them in an extended attribute (xattr), only that isn’t kept in sync with the other copy. The end result is that Finder Comments are as reliable as loose scraps of paper, and just as easily lost.”
Link. WTF Apple.
Simplenote adds internal hyperlinks
Link. You can see all links pointing to a note as well. Markdown not required, but links are markdown based. Wiki style creation, links use GUIDs so persist if title changes. Rolling out to various platforms.
Height determined by thousands of genes.
Link. This is why our personalized medicine hopes died in the 00s. Imagine how many play a role in autism or schizophrenia or weight.
“The country had been brutal for a very long time, from the beginning actually. And now the rhetoric began to mirror reality.”
Link. Mass shootings were tolerated. Patriarchy is very strong.
“One universe observes facts, respects science, and values at least the goals of democracy and civility; the other universe does not.”
Link. The never-college vote now.
“The political polling profession is done,” leading Republican pollster Frank Luntz told me just after 11 p.m. “It is devastating for my industry.”
Link. A new world.
“some bugs in the version of Big Sur that Apple intends to ship”
Link. I will probably run Mojave until May 2021.
“structural changes in the chromatin prime the cell to make and preserve memories”
Link. The root of consciousness.
“If the US death rates were comparable to Australia, the US would have had 187 661 fewer COVID-19 deaths (94% of reported deaths), and if comparable with Canada, 117 622 fewer deaths (59%),”
Link. Canada is the champ we try to emulate but always fall short.
COVID and immunology 101.
Link. Amazing primer. “Around twenty per cent of an older adult’s T-cell repertoire is devoted to fighting a single virus: human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)”
“Tom Rose, who is the first known person at the White House to test positive, according to several people, but whose identity was not disclosed until now”
Link. Finding patient zero.
“the world is in a global liquidity trap, where monetary policy has limited effect.”
Link. Our talent supply far exceeds talent demand.
“only Delta Air Lines committed to leaving its middle seats open during the holidays, now through Jan. 6”
Link. Worth paying for.
“90 percent of Republicans expect Trump to win”
Link. I doubt 30% of Dems expect Biden to win — despite data. That’s a staggering number.
Beyond “herd immunity”, parts of America will enbrace COVID.
Link. As expected. We also embrace gun violence.
China easily blocked investigation into COVID origins.
Link. Even 30y ago the WHO would have caved. Never built for a fight. The bad actor is China.
For GOP Facebook bends its rules.
Link. Create a NPR-model clone. Let Facebook become talk radio.
“any indictments or convictions resulting from their actions would be beyond the reach of a Presidential pardon.”
Link. A reference.
Breaking precedent NYT compares Canada’s COVID response to US.
Link. What a sane country can do.
Electroacupuncture failed to decrease pain in plavebo controlled trial.
Link. Activity increased however. I’m skeptical there’s anything non-placebo here, but I do love acupuncture as placebo.
“NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) recently said it was concerned about the disjointed way the complicated system was being developed and tested.”
Link. Politics and government contracting rules dictated the multi-vendor build.
“trade in my two-year-old device (a credit of $155) for this year’s model”
Link. Apple’s answer to unfixable battery is to trade-in every 2 years.
Metaphysics of QFT.
Link. Light reading.
Car-free development in Arizona.
Link. I could see something like that for retirement.
Birx: “said to have walked out of a meeting of the White House coronavirus task force this summer, and decided never to return again.”
Link. Atlas was the last straw.
“municipalities with first-wave excess deaths of at least 0.5% of the population have tallied 216 cases per 100,000 people—one-third as many as in areas with excess deaths around 0.1%.”
Link. As expected. Vaccines should work.
“If you need to be cocooned in nostalgia—and slightly repulsed by adolescence—there’s the middle-school comedy “Pen15,” which is set in the early two-thousands”
Link. The 2000s are nostalgia now.
CDC: “ProPublica’s reporting affords the most comprehensive inside look at the escalating tensions, paranoia and pained discussions that unfolded behind the walls of CDC’s Atlanta headquarters”
Link. I expected more would speak out.
Declining COVID fatality driven by decreases in olds.
Link. German data series.
Trump and lost illusions
Link. A litany of bad presidents actually refutes the claim that Trunp is not unique. he unites the worst of every horrible president. Harding’s corruption. Nixon’s abuse of power. Wilson’s racism. Then he adds an unprecedented attack on truth.
The illusions that Trump removed.
Link. Credit him for this: we know what we are now.
Allocating COVID vaccines: Black priority?
Link. Favoring Black Americans would crush White vaccine resistance.