Link. “They supported it with a long proof — 200 gigabytes in size — justifying their conclusion.”
Daily Archives: August 20, 2020
The Republican Embrace of QAnon: “coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world”
Link. Either the GOP dies (to be reborn) or America dies.
“Over 70 former Republican national security officials including ex-CIA and FBI chiefs will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday”
Link. The final hour.
Xi wants a Maoist purge.
Link. Uneasy sits the head …
Testing monoclonal antibodies in nursing home outbreaks
Link. Excellent.
Apple PE Ratio 2006-2020.
Link. Now similar to Facebook. Historically Apple was relatively undervalued, now is in range of other tech companies.
Transcript: Barack Obama’s DNC speech.
Link. The ripping Trump to shreds part is surprisingly brief. The bigger focus is a call to vote, to not let democracy die. (He only indicts GOP indirectly in terms of Trump enablers.)
Obama analysis: “The fear that we ourselves will not sufficiently attend to the notion that our “unique polity” and “way of life” are worth preserving, and that this is the ultimate existential threat to them, because this is what leaves us vuln
Link. Evangelicals are one group not fond of democracy.
How Probability Misleads Us About The Universe
Link. In general medicine it is fairly common to see a rare disease, but uncommem to see the same one twice. There are a lot of rare diseases.
COVID myocarditis.
Link. “in young patients who had seemingly overcome SARS-CoV-2 it’s fairly common for the heart to be affected”
“To gain full access to any privacy-protected directory, all an attacker has to do is establish an ssh connection”
Link. Apple left this open intentionally? Hard to grasp why unfixed.