Link. Great discussion.
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“One thioacetone reaction produced a smell so bad that it spilled out of the lab and swept through the city, causing widespread panic and evacuation,”
Link. Looks like Munroe is doing monthly column for NYT Science.
Randall Munroe doing science for NYT: Snowball of Neutrinos
Link. There’s a billion/trillion error in text. Hope this is regular column
“What makes a hostel worth the gym mats moonlighting as mattresses or the bunk mate who snores so very, very loudly is the people you encounter”
Link. A COVID casualty.
“In his latest attempt to stoke white fear ahead of the November election”
Link. NYT is getting better at covering Trump.
4 Families Take On Rare Diseases.
Link. Rett I’d heard of. Others very rare. All terrible. Astounding efforts, but also unlikely to work.
“maraviroc and nicotinamide, are thought to lure H.I.V. out of its hiding spots in the body, allowing the other drugs to kill the virus.”
Link. Even if not perfect, could we treat HIV with intermittent therapies?
“Per million people, Sweden has suffered 40 percent more deaths than the United States, 12 times more than Norway, seven times more than Finland and six times more than Denmark”
Link. We are not the Stupidest!!
“As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump writes, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollegiate test, the SAT, on his behalf.”
Link. Surprise.
Injectable drug prevents HIV infection for 2 months
Link. Likely more effective than oral prophylaxis.
Avalanche Unlimited 1.1: migrate Aperture
Link. I’m interested.
Surinam: “could become a place where people actually want to live.”
Link. Dictator faces life in prison.
“evangelical disapproval of Trump is like Susan Collins’ disapproval”
Link. Face scrunched, commands obeyed
“division of Libya with a Haftar-led Russian client state in the east that shares the oil revenues with Tripoli”
Link. Russia v Turkey everywhere
Texas healthcare prepares for the onslaught.
Link. They seem too confident.
In Harm’s Way: In Latin America
Link. You read the first 20 but it goes on and on. In America we had so many advantages. A catastropic election meant we wasted them all.
Dinner now comes with a trail of COVID infections.
Link. Meat is worst, but all food preparation produces COVID infection. Blame GOP voters.
JSON connector for Tableau
Link. I forgot Tableau supported JSON. I wonder if the public version of Tableau includes this?
“America is failing because it’s full of stupid people. Stupid people who can vote.”
Link. The 18th century worried about this a lot.
Variations in COVID precautions amomg COVID experts.
Link. Outdoor masking and fomite precautions vary the most. Great reference.
A pro-union police insider’s take on reforming MPLS PD
Link. Good reference to keep at hand.
Collateralized corporate loans are looming economic peril
Link. “These are very similar to the collateralized mortgage obligations, issued in increasingly complex variations, that blew up our economies 12 years ago.”
iCloud Shared Albums limits – how many images you can upload in an hour
Link. Surprisingly low numbers.
Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire breaks Facebook rules, goes unpunished
Link. Zuck has an ideology
Shared photo library cleanup: com.apple.cloudphotosd
Link. My cache is using 16GB and I think it’s mostly zombies.
“Center for Post-Covid Care at Mount Sinai Health System, said the biggest physical problem the center was seeing was shortness of breath,”
Link. Hell of a virus.
Apple launches web portal for Apple Card.
Link. Now it makes sense
“Six million good manufacturing jobs were automated out of existence in the US in 2000-2010, which led fairly directly to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.”
Link. Why neither a 4 day work week or depression era overtime penalties will spread work
Simulated flyover of Frozen Martian Crater
Link. Allegedly close to what we would see.
We Need Better Masks.
Link. Finally.
Lifetime discrimination linked to increased risk of high blood pressure among African-Americans
Link. “there was no dose-responsive relationship reflected in the findings”.
Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder
Link. Why?
“self-powered, compact, aluminum Thunderbolt 3 enclosure”
Link. $70. Not compatible with $20 USBC hubs though.
Book Review: “Will He Go?”
Link. Digression on the enlightenment imtellectual choosing between Wokism and Fascism.
Toronto is a weirdly awful city for bicycling …
Link. The Google bike map view is appalling. It’s one of the worst bike-ped cities in North America.
HASH.ai: a general purpose simulation toolset.
Link. Grand ambitions. Joel Spolsky a collaborator.
Five Word Jargon. xkcd
Link. I know the liver one.
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
Link. “Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747—less than 4 percent of the total—came to North America.” Must watch.
“whites and Hispanics are killed approximately in proportion to population. Blacks are killed at about twice their proportion to population”
Link.
The end of Seattle’s CHAZ.
Link. Patience made shutdown easier, but two died.
US excess death numbers: 27K more.
Link. IMHO that speaks well for our stats. We aren’t off by huge %.
“Shell writing down $22 billion on its balance sheets, making it the latest oil company to acknowledge that things are probably not going back to the way they were.”
Link. They think Trump will lose.
“members of the Church of Secular Science bow to the Gods of Data by wearing a mask as their symbol, demonstrating that they are the elite; smarter, more rational, and morally superior to everyone else.”
Link. This is important.
Flying Snakes Glide aero writhe.
Link. Complex and elegant.
CA: “This is faster and worse than I expected. You have to have a ton of respect for this thing. It is nasty and it just lurks and waits to stomp on you if you let your guard down for a second.”
Link. Not exponential and then it is.
“periods when the virus seemed to percolate until something — perhaps a superspreader event — triggered an exponential rise in infections”
Link. Weirdness.
“dispersion parameter. It is a measure of how much variation there is from person to person in transmitting a pathogen.”
Link. Epi 101.
Create no-track YouTube Links.
Link.
“Microsoft vs AWS is as real a deathmatch as Facebook vs Google or Google vs Apple.”
Link. Google’s cloud fail is amazing
“Far from being biased against Republicans in the U.S. and right-wing nationalists and authoritarians around the globe, Facebook has been biased for them.”
Link. Fundamental flaw is both-sides equivalent assumption. Republicans are more evil.