Link. Breaking point with China’s abusive and dysfunctional COVID controls.
Daily Archives: October 31, 2022
“There’s no longer any reason someone should browse the App Store. It’s a dirt mall with a mob casino in it.”
Link. I avoid it like the plague.
“The App Store has corrupted such a great company so deeply. They make so much from gambling and manipulative IAPs that they don’t even see the problem anymore.”
Link.
“other elephantine asteroids, veiled by the sun’s glare, remain disconcertingly undiscovered”
Link. “NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission … will … find most of the hazardous asteroids that other surveys have missed.”
“0.93-mile-wide (1.5-kilometer) asteroid dubbed 2022 AP7—has an orbit that may eventually put it on a collision course with Earth.”
Link. Hiding in sun glare. One day our asteroid deflection tech will earn its keep.
Pandemic Amnesty: “In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.
Link.
Predicted EV-D68 paralysis flare in small children didn’t happen.
Link. Last few years have taught us how little we know about infectious disease. Science grows from humility.
“Smarties approached baseball like an equation … and proved in the process that a solved sport is a worse one.”
Link. Fun essay on the perils of optimization. “Debate is a finite game. Marriage is an infinite game.”