Link. A critique of Galbraith. Friend recommemded. A worldview both familiar and alien.
Daily Archives: January 11, 2020
“Puerto Rico is squeezed between the border of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates.”
Link. Geology
“Analysts with Morgan Stanley have said they expect urban air taxis to be common by 2040″
Link. Autonomous presumably
British tabloid press are truly weird
Link. The nut here is a whacko tabloid veteran whining about meghixit and what he was owed
“slowest 10-year population growth since the first census was taken in 1790,”
Link. Insane to halt immigration now
Star Wars Voyager 1
Link. We did something amazing once.
Russia’s science academy exposes widespread fraud and corruption in Russian science.
Link. China worse. Too many scientists, not enough science demand.
“states that raised their minimum wages by $1, reduced the suicide rates by 3.4 percent to 5.9 percent among adults between the ages of 18 and 64, whose highest educational attainment was a high school diploma or less”
Link. Veterans
Soleimani Assassination: ensuring support of key GOP Senators.
Link. Trump wants 100% GOP support in his trial. Consistent with his effective political strategy.
‘Macintosh HD’ persists.
Link. A last bit of Apple’s soul.
Federal Program Offers Free Phones For the Poor, So Long as You’re OK With Chinese Malware
Link. This program needs to die.
Cars switching to CO2 based cooling systems
Link. It’s complicated.
Cancer Death Rate in U.S. Sees Sharpest One-Year Drop
Link. “reduced smoking rates and to advances in lung cancer treatment. New therapies for melanoma of the skin”. GOP states will have more cervical cancer due to HPV antivaxxers.
“based on limited testing data, this season’s flu shot does not look like a good match for the B Victoria flu and may not be very effective”
Link. Darn
Limits of focusing on high risk patients.
Link. Next is to look at a sligjly lower risk tier and focus there.
“Iran has a dismal success rate in assassinating foreign officials.”
Link. Their hackers do better and can be deniable, so cyberwar retaliation more likely.
How black holes grow when time stops for incoming matter/radiation.
Link. Feels like Zeno’s paradox, but simpler. The particle stops, but the event horizon grows and eats it. Of course, quantum.
Unicode’s zero width space and file names.
Link. Why does unicode need this?
“In Kathmandu, as in much of South Asia and parts of the Middle East, South America and sub-Saharan Africa, these men and their tanker trucks sometimes prevent entire cities from running dry”
Link. Deeply researched and broadly sympathetic.