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Daily Archives: June 15, 2023
Long Covid Hints – 8% prevalence at day 300 but a weird metformin effect.
Link. I *hate* the use of “Long Covid” as a diagnostic entity. I can’t believe we’re still using that term. Still, good discussion here.
XBB sublineages comprise nearly 99% of circulating coronavirus in the U.S.
Link. Doesn’t say why. Next vaccine to focus on XBB.
“From October through early June, about 75,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported nationally. That’s more than double the average annual number of flu deaths in the decade preceding the COVID-19 pandemic.”
COVID less lethal than flu but far more common.
Moral Injury in corporate medicine fueled by private equity.
Link. Primary care physicians (I am one) are basically broken. Unionization is the only response.
Oregon Town supplies Idaho cannabis demand: ” … tax revenues that have paid for new police positions emergency response vehicles and park and trail improvements.”
Link. Small town has 11 dispensaries — all for Idaho customers.
Biden: “… four months after he called out junk fees in his State of the Union and nine months after he first called for action to crack down on hidden fees …”
Link. The GOP is now forced to defend hidden fees and price concealment. Because of course they must. (NYT article covering this was so inane I refuse to link to it. Instead Gov PR.)
White Starbucks manager fired over racist claims: The federal jury found that race was a factor in Phillipss termination and awarded her $600000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages for violations to her rights under state an
Link. Likely to be reduced on appeal but Starbucks used her as a scapegoat.
Mainstream macroeconomics correctly predicted the recent inflation and gave us the tools that looked to have solved much of the problem
Link. Noah overstates his case, but does have a point.
The deputies who are White also waterboarded Jenkins and Parker pelted them with eggs and attempted to sexually assault them with a sex toy
Link. Mississippi. Even by American standards this is … noteworthy.
“The FBI Jackson Field Office, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office opened a federal civil rights investigation into the incident in February”
apply AI to chip design building custom chip design models to iterate into existing simulators and refine new designs that actually have a pretty good chance of being novel.
Link. Suddenly my Cringely RSS feed lights up. Sounds like he’s had a rough time but fun to read.
Extended rant against $4K eBike for 10yo trail riders.
Link. It’s a good rant.