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Is China in Big Trouble? (Again)

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. How will they escape this time?

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Waller TX truck assault by idiot teenager – the update.

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Blowing coal”. Sick culture, sick parents, warped kids. National, maybe international, attention.

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Happy stories of the social media startups Trump spurned.

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Their great flaw was their opposition to censorship. A Trump site must be strongly censored.

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Migration assistant: “set up your new primary account on the new Mac with the same user name – in particular short username – and password”

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Solid tips. Save.

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Scott Aarronson’s Shtetl-Optimized has moved to scottaaronson.blog

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Feedbin picked up new feed. I don’t think old feed is necessary redirecting.

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“The biggest Mac problem is still software quality”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The hardware improvements don’t mean much to me. I’d trade it all for a Pro version of Photos.app.

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“if your MacBook Pro or Air ever wakes or starts up unexpectedly, look first for magnets”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Funny.

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“PBS really should be doing an internal investigation about why they broadly promoted a dangerous quack for years”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Before you donate ask the status of that investigation. Christine Northrup.

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macOS Upgrade to Big Sur fails due to bug handling Spotlight files.

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. private/var/folders/*/*/C/com.apple.metadata.mdworker. Apple will fix eventually.

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“lot of potential for more lightweight outliners like Drummer and Zavala that can potentially talk to each other and to the web.”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. All that is old is new again.

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Device Software Updates

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I got one for Mojave. Nice.

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If America Had Six Parties, Which Would You Belong To?

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Quiz.

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The biofuel opposition: “tip the scales against farmers like me who produce corn and soybeans for ethanol and biodiesel.”

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. CO2 support is bigger than Exxon.

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“Black and Hispanic or Latino death rates are six times higher than those for white people.”

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In middle-age, men 1.6x women. Get vaccinated.

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Genetically altered pig kidney works briefly for a brain-dead human.

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Dr. Montgomery and his team also transplanted the pig’s thymus.” Many thanks to the patient and their family who gave permission for this work.

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“that’s not what Amazon — and Jeff Bezos in particular — have said under oath”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bezos lied about how bastardly his company behaves. Bit like Cook but more flagrant.

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“secretary, who is vaccinated, learned of his infection during routine testing ahead of a foreign trip”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need home antigen test kits.

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“the longer a person had high levels of LDL — no matter what their LDL level is in young adulthood or middle age”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Favors treating LDL over 100 earlier in life. Some people have dramatic drops with small statin doses.

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“street vendors who used to line the sidewalks, some of whom were kidnapped by the gang for what little they had in their pockets or told to sell what few possessions they had at home”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Haiti is a warning.

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“protein-based vaccine as a booster for people who have already received other vaccines”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Good overview. Future is likely regular COVID vaccines of different types. Challenge is parsing out side-effects.

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Tuberculosis: “coughing accounts for as little as 7 percent of the total bacteria emitted by an infected patient”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. One of the odder learnings of the COVID era.

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“the Minnesota Psychiatric Society released a position paper opposing authorization of medical cannabis as a treatment for every and all anxiety disorders.”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. No kidding. There’s no medically credible evidence that cannabis is a good longterm treatment for anything. Cannabis is recreation (with risks) and should be treated that way.

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“Supply-Side Progressivism is the kind of vision I want to fight for. Cost Disease Socialism is the kind of last-ditch palliative that I will accept, but only glumly.”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Would love to see a critique of his dismissal of Baumol’s cost disease.

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“horseback riding likely sends more people to the hospital than other sports like football, auto and motorcycle racing, and skiing”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Motorcycle racing?! They probably don’t mean super cross. But otherwise this is not surprising. Horseback riding is THE extreme sport.

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Powell immunosuppressed due to multiple myeloma history and therapy.

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m sure he received monoclonal antibodies as well.

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“the kind of media that suffocates nuance, venerates self-assuredness, and equates self-reflection and principled concessions with weakness.”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The 20% who sustain civilization sigh and go back to pushing the rock up the hill.

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“In Idaho, commissioners last month appointed a new physician representative to the health board in the Boise region who advocates unapproved treatments for Covid-19 and refers to coronavirus vaccinations as “needle rape.”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

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Summary of housing crisis.

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Too few homes and corporate consolidation makes eviction more efficient. Does not dig into problems with assistance programs.

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“Inflation-adjusted retail spending across the U.S. has risen 14 percent over the past two years”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The COVID boom.

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“… there is a powerful entrenched force arrayed against the climate solutions we need — it just isn’t economists, billionaires, or lefty activists. It’s the fossil fuel industry.”

Posted on October 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s their nature.

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The Rankings Racket Goes to Kindergarten

Posted on October 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. For colleges: “dilute the influence of any one ranking system, by adding much more complexity and different facets to the system”. US News must die.

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“there’s a valuable new command to export passwords from Safari and a new pane in System Preferences, which nobody knows about. And if you look in the tool for managing keychains, password export isn’t supported at all”

Posted on October 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Remember MacUser?

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History of Evernote: “Pachikov worked on the prototype of Evernote (which was initially known as EverNote) for two years, and released a beta version of the tool for Windows in 2004.”

Posted on October 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I love his memory ambitions. I love Simplenote because we seem unable to sustain anything more ambitious.

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macOS File types: “MIME types when downloading from the Internet, can still use old Classic Mac OS four-character type codes, but ultimately relies on UTIs”

Posted on October 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The taxonomy is pretty crude.

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“If the Democrats do not succeed in passing a voting rights law, we can expect America to become a one-party state that, at best, will look much like the American South did between 1876 and 1964.”

Posted on October 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “The Senate will vote on the Freedom to Vote Act on Wednesday.”

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“Espino is searching for employment elsewhere and is considering seeking a license in Florida, where vaccination requirements are lax.”

Posted on October 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. She will not like the places that are desperate enough to hire her.

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Norway, Oil and Climate.

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Doing the right thing even when it really hurts.

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The Quad and Containing China.

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Quad members collectively outnumber, outgun and surround their adversary.” Australia, India, Japan, US.

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“can do nothing about flank collapses on volcanic islands except have a good early warning system”

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There are lots of low probability disasters lurking. The mega-tsunami wasn’t on my radar. (MN safe from that, but not from Yellowstone)

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“71 percent of the vaccinated trust hospitals and doctors “a lot,” for example, while only 39 percent of the unvaccinated do”

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need to resurrect anthropology. We will have to rename and relaunch because the original flamed out.

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A guide to using charts – pie, line, bar and more.

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Uses Numbers as example. Marvelous reference.

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“the forerunners just weren’t there any more. No mass extinction of American megafauna (large prey animals) until the Clovis hunters arrive sixty centuries later makes it almost certain.”

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The first First People did not survive.

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“Chinese economy is utterly dependent on foreign trade, and China’s geography makes it extremely vulnerable to blockade.”

Posted on October 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Details on how China invades and the role of a massive missile attack on Taiwan’s defenses.

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“Biden has brokered a deal among the different stakeholders to end what was becoming a crisis.”

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Things are getting fixed.

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“for most people, low-dose aspirin … should not be used for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease … or colorectal cancer.”

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not a surprise. People with NO known disease.

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There are no real consequences for refusing a congressional subpoena.

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. As long as you have a ready supply of lawyers.

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Alden Global Capital’s war on newspapers.

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “For Smith, the Palm Beach conservative and Trump ally, sticking it to the mainstream media might actually be a perk of Alden’s strategy.”

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“production at one of the key iPhone camera module manufacturing facilities in southern Vietnam has gradually resumed in recent days after several months of on-and-off disruption”

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. COVID related.

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Siri’s Grim 10-Year Anniversary.

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I use Siri fairly often and it works for me. It is a long way from the crazy early hype however.

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Apple Health efforts flounder.

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They aren’t scientists or clinicians and they don’t want to hear bad news.

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