Link. For the record.
Daily Archives: December 20, 2019
“vitamin E acetate, reporting that it was found in lung fluid from 48 of 51 people with the vaping illness”
Link. Epidemic easing, presumably decreased use Vit E
When should you test yourself for an untreatable and unpredictable disease like Alzheimer’s?
Link. AFTER you get longterm care insurance. Then give your money away and start smoking and base jumping.
“Bing served up much more bullshit than Google.”
Link. Kill it.
SeaMonkey is suffering.
Link. It is my HTML editor for macOS. Nothing else comparable
Take Control of Shortcuts for iOS
Link. Most of the books in this series are too basic, but this is interesting. No DRM.
Apple Stops Staingate Repairs After 4 Years
Link. Years ago they sucked on repairing iMacs with heat issues
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy.
Link. Pulitzer material.
Surveillance: “The Times concludes that in the absence of regulation, there is no hope”
Link. There is no tech fix.
“The vast majority of diseases, including many cancers, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease, have a genetic contribution of 5 to 10 percent at best.”
Link. This is misleading. Better to say our genomic models predict 5% of variation. Consumer genomics is astrology.
Face recognition: “Asian and African American people were up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white men”
Link. Especially Asian. Should be banned.
“Trump and McConnell don’t want a Senate trial that includes the handful of witnesses that Democrats have demanded because Trump is flagrantly guilty of all of the corruption for which he’s now been impeached”
Link. Does any Senator, even the looniest, really believe Trump is innocent?