Link. I didn’t know this legacy of 1890s COVID. (Russian Flu)
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Avoiding China’s conquest of Taiwan.
Link. I’m surprised Taiwan has not developed a nuclear deterrent.
“China adopted superblock planning with unprecedented zeal and on an unprecedented scale throughout the ’90s, 2000s and most of this decade”
Link. China loves the automobile. Passionately.
“platforms optimized for engagement will give a natural advantage to their most shameless users.”
Link. A diet of constant car wrecks.
“In the United States, the move toward oligarchy had been underway for decades.”
Link. Biden invokes the rate of change as a problem for democracy.
“The bacterial broth spends four days in the fermenter, multiplying every 20 minutes and making trillions of copies of the DNA plasmids.”
Link. This is awesome.
Collins: “10 percent shrewd planning and 90 percent blind luck”
Link. Not impressed by celebrity.
Life with COVID-induced parosmia.
Link. It often improves, but heck of an outcome for a young person. Also people are less aware of COVID smell effects than physicians think.
“West Virginia will give $100 savings bonds to 16- to 35-year-olds who get a Covid-19 vaccine”
Link. Excellent experiment!
Setting up Notion for Academic collaboration
Link. Fascinating.
“Basecamp, as a company, is no longer going to weigh-in publicly on societal political affairs”
Link. Not climate change. Not racism. Not overthrowing elections. Basecamp would fight for the Auschwitz contract.
GOP establishment deplore state of GOP voters.
Link. Some mention of GOP war on science would not be amiss. Once the base abandoned science it was a small step to abandon reality.
“There’s no real room for growth here so it leaves the bullshit politicking at the door.”
Link. In my own odd workplace many “leaders” seem not to want work-life balance, but also seem unhappy. It’s a hunorless place.
Net slander industry: “The people facilitating slander and the self-proclaimed good guys who help remove it are often one and the same.”
Link. “ After a couple of stints in jail” The sleazebags who do these things often have a record.
Rereading Oliver Sacks 2015 essay on living with his terminal cancer at age 80.
Link. “I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself.”
Cultured Code Things is not a subscription product.
Link. The Cloud is “free” for people who pay for Things.app. They should make this clear on their web site, it confused me for years. Things is not inexpensive, but at least it’s not subscription.
“On Spotify, artists need 3.5 million streams per year to achieve the annual earnings for a full-time minimum-wage worker of $15,080, “
Link.
On life and GDP.
Link. Lotterman is one of my favorite writers on Economics. Obscure platform though.
“Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, flew to London to speak at a second rally for Mr. Robinson.”
Link. Gosar again. It’s a trend. There’s a hint Peter Thiel is a backer of the white nationalist, more likely Shillman.
“Passwordstate creator Click Studios told customers that bad actors compromised its upgrade mechanism and used it to install a malicious file on user computers.”
Link. Don’t worry, no other password managers have been compromised. Why would Russia need passwords when they can just walk right in?
Chauvin judge on Waters: “I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function.”
Link. He goes on from there. Waters should retire.
“businessmen who hated government regulation warned voters that their tax dollars were being used to give Black Americans extra benefits. It was socialism, they said, and it would encourage Black people to step out of their place.”
Link. A Faustian bargain. It gave the GOP power, but it cost them you-know-what.
“Precision Finding, that interface that points you to the exact location of your AirTag — is made possible by Ultra Wideband technology, which is currently available only on the iPhones 11 and 12.”
Link. Bummer. I agree with his comments. iMac is kind of dumb.
COVID-19 Forecasting COVID-19 now.
Link. Wonder when they started showing these…
Japan is screwed: “less than 1 percent of the population fully inoculated”
Link. Insane to do the Olympics this summer.
“erroneous results returned by the M1 using double precision arithmetic are identical to those returned by current Intel processors”
Link. Good I think.
“the most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered. A year-long trial in Burkina Faso has shown 77%”
Link. “especially, thanks to 450 infants and toddlers in central Burkina Faso and to their parents. You have done the world a great service.” Will all the vaccines get one mass Nobel prize?
Command+Shift+Period toggle visibility of hidden files.
Link. As old as Snow Leopard but recently rediscovered. Also works in Finder (Cmd-sh-.)
“I have now realized,” Gostin added, “that our belief about travel restrictions was just that — a belief. It was evidence-free.”
Link. Unexamined beliefs are everywhere and very hard for experts to recognize. It is one of the true weaknesses of expertise.
“To speed up SMB file browsing, you can prevent macOS from reading .DS_Store files on SMB shares”
Link. defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE
“in Delhi, 65% of cases are under 40 years old.”
Link. China next?
“if a scam makes its way into the App Store, Apple is entirely dependent on users posting on social media or contacting Apple through another channel to be alerted to problems.”
Link. Appigo’s crazy review nag can’t be reported.
Long line diff.
Link. BBEditvis easiest but Fold is cool.
Alzheimer’s trials: “Our main incentive is to help other people and to move research forward,” Ms. Lippman added. “There wouldn’t be a Covid vaccine if people had not volunteered.”
Link. We got nothing.
At 90: “swept overboard by a rogue wave while sailing near the mouth of the Richmond River”
Link. I would prefer a faster death, but this sounds almost ideal to me.
“influenza vaccination is much higher among females — about 63 percent compared to 53 percent”
Link. On average men are dumber.
The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights
Link. The GOP is the white supremacy party. If you don’t like that vote Dem.
“MacBook Pro models that are expected in 2021, and clearly confirm plans for additional ports and a return to MagSafe”
Link. I can wait.
“adults are racing headlong into a post-vaccination summer while kids are being left in vaccine limbo”
Link. The new focus.
The crimes of Trumpism: CDC and “the willful, clear-cut and disgraceful nature of the public tragedy”
Link. Trumpism is not one person, it is a disease infecting most of the GOP.
“It seems unlikely to us that Apple has granted Cellebrite a license to redistribute and incorporate Apple DLLs in its own product, so this might present a legal risk for Cellebrite and its users.”
Link. “We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.”
“Officer Sicknick died from a brainstem stroke really does raise the possibility of a freakish coincidence.”
Link. By modern standards barely even bizarrre.
“immediately pave their roads in hopes of ridding themselves of these Lycra-clad locusts once and for all.”
Link. Dirt roads are new rails to trails.
“Once Starlink becomes effectively the dominant ISP in America, it will also become the dominant ISP in the world. And all at no cost to SpaceX since the expansion will have been financed from our phone bills.”
Link. Bond villains have all the luck.
2017: “14,542 of the gun deaths (37.4%) were murders”
Link. If we consider only per-capita murder, how does US compare to Canada and Germany?
How macOS manages iOS apps: “I think that RunningBoard has quite a future.”
Link. The age of reckless consumption is ending.
“Neither murder charge required the jury to find that Mr. Chavin intended to kill Mr. Floyd.”
Link. Very helpful. Makes me think verdict might withstand appeal.
Solarwinds details.
Link. Russia may be the best at cyberwar.
“six categories to explain most of the difference in happiness between countries: gross domestic product per capita, social support, life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity and perception of corruption levels.”
Link. Generosity is the curious one. US ahead of Canada?!
“modest, but I would say somewhat important association of short sleep and dementia risk”
Link. We need animal models, there is no way to figure out the causality in humans.