Link. I remember the fortress sketches. Sounds like it was conflated with a Zhawar base built with CIA help during earlier Soviet occupation. NYT messed up.
Daily Archives: September 11, 2023
“Members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices won him over to the argument that the vaccine be recommended for all Americans above 6 months of age”
Link. CDC recommendation determine if insurance pays for 64yo me.
This is a great discussion. ID specialists are not terribly worried but lean to the vaccine.
Isaacson on Musk Ukraine: “I mistakenly thought the policy to not allow Starlink to be used for an attack on Crimea had been first decided on the night of the Ukrainian attempted sneak attack”
Link. That’s what I remember reading in the NYT weeks before Isaacson’s mistake was repeated in the WSJ and became viral.
TSMC Arizona chip plant is kind of a $40 billion disaster.
Link. Taiwan is not going to keep its chip tech in Taiwan. For the usual reasons AND to keep the west committed to Taiwan’s security.
Use your damned Apple Account / Apple ID cash balance – make default payment method
Link. Somehow I have money stuck in my Apple Account, aka Apple ID account. If you want this to ever get used you need to make it the default payment method per this post.
My current payment methods are: Apple ID -> Apple Cash -> Apple Card -> Visa.
You can’t see Apple ID cash balances from the web, so if you have an unused Apple ID you’d need to create a macOS user account to view it.
“As of 2021, India manufactured 62 percent of the raw materials for drugs”
Link. China only 23%. This article tiptoes around the fact that India’s internal safety oversight is very bad. Wealthy nations rely on separate programs.