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Long COVID-1892: “Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania) it helped cause a famine because so many people were too debilitated to pick the harvest.”

Posted on April 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t know this legacy of 1890s COVID. (Russian Flu)

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Avoiding China’s conquest of Taiwan.

Posted on April 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m surprised Taiwan has not developed a nuclear deterrent.

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“China adopted superblock planning with unprecedented zeal and on an unprecedented scale throughout the ’90s, 2000s and most of this decade”

Posted on April 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. China loves the automobile. Passionately.

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“platforms optimized for engagement will give a natural advantage to their most shameless users.”

Posted on April 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A diet of constant car wrecks.

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“In the United States, the move toward oligarchy had been underway for decades.”

Posted on April 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Biden invokes the rate of change as a problem for democracy.

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“The bacterial broth spends four days in the fermenter, multiplying every 20 minutes and making trillions of copies of the DNA plasmids.”

Posted on April 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is awesome.

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Collins: “10 percent shrewd planning and 90 percent blind luck”

Posted on April 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not impressed by celebrity.

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Life with COVID-induced parosmia.

Posted on April 28, 2021 by jgordon

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.

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“West Virginia will give $100 savings bonds to 16- to 35-year-olds who get a Covid-19 vaccine”

Posted on April 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Excellent experiment!

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Setting up Notion for Academic collaboration

Posted on April 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Fascinating.

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“Basecamp, as a company, is no longer going to weigh-in publicly on societal political affairs”

Posted on April 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not climate change. Not racism. Not overthrowing elections. Basecamp would fight for the Auschwitz contract.

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GOP establishment deplore state of GOP voters.

Posted on April 26, 2021 by jgordon

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.

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“There’s no real room for growth here so it leaves the bullshit politicking at the door.”

Posted on April 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In my own odd workplace many “leaders” seem not to want work-life balance, but also seem unhappy. It’s a hunorless place.

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Net slander industry: “The people facilitating slander and the self-proclaimed good guys who help remove it are often one and the same.”

Posted on April 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “ After a couple of stints in jail” The sleazebags who do these things often have a record.

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Rereading Oliver Sacks 2015 essay on living with his terminal cancer at age 80.

Posted on April 25, 2021 by jgordon

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.”

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Cultured Code Things is not a subscription product.

Posted on April 25, 2021 by jgordon

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.

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“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, “

Posted on April 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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On life and GDP.

Posted on April 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lotterman is one of my favorite writers on Economics. Obscure platform though.

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“Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, flew to London to speak at a second rally for Mr. Robinson.”

Posted on April 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Gosar again. It’s a trend. There’s a hint Peter Thiel is a backer of the white nationalist, more likely Shillman.

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“Passwordstate creator Click Studios told customers that bad actors compromised its upgrade mechanism and used it to install a malicious file on user computers.”

Posted on April 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Don’t worry, no other password managers have been compromised. Why would Russia need passwords when they can just walk right in?

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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.”

Posted on April 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He goes on from there. Waters should retire.

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“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.”

Posted on April 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A Faustian bargain. It gave the GOP power, but it cost them you-know-what.

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“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.”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bummer. I agree with his comments. iMac is kind of dumb.

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COVID-19 Forecasting COVID-19 now.

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wonder when they started showing these…

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Japan is screwed: “less than 1 percent of the population fully inoculated”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Insane to do the Olympics this summer.

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“erroneous results returned by the M1 using double precision arithmetic are identical to those returned by current Intel processors”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Good I think.

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“the most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered. A year-long trial in Burkina Faso has shown 77%”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

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?

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Command+Shift+Period toggle visibility of hidden files.

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. As old as Snow Leopard but recently rediscovered. Also works in Finder (Cmd-sh-.)

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“I have now realized,” Gostin added, “that our belief about travel restrictions was just that — a belief. It was evidence-free.”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Unexamined beliefs are everywhere and very hard for experts to recognize. It is one of the true weaknesses of expertise.

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“To speed up SMB file browsing, you can prevent macOS from reading .DS_Store files on SMB shares”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

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“in Delhi, 65% of cases are under 40 years old.”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. China next?

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“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.”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Appigo’s crazy review nag can’t be reported.

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Long line diff.

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. BBEditvis easiest but Fold is cool.

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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.”

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We got nothing.

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At 90: “swept overboard by a rogue wave while sailing near the mouth of the Richmond River”

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I would prefer a faster death, but this sounds almost ideal to me.

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“influenza vaccination is much higher among females — about 63 percent compared to 53 percent”

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. On average men are dumber.

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The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The GOP is the white supremacy party. If you don’t like that vote Dem.

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“MacBook Pro models that are expected in 2021, and clearly confirm plans for additional ports and a return to MagSafe”

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I can wait.

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“adults are racing headlong into a post-vaccination summer while kids are being left in vaccine limbo”

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The new focus.

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The crimes of Trumpism: CDC and “the willful, clear-cut and disgraceful nature of the public tragedy”

Posted on April 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Trumpism is not one person, it is a disease infecting most of the GOP.

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“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.”

Posted on April 21, 2021 by jgordon

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.”

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“Officer Sicknick died from a brainstem stroke really does raise the possibility of a freakish coincidence.”

Posted on April 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. By modern standards barely even bizarrre.

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“immediately pave their roads in hopes of ridding themselves of these Lycra-clad locusts once and for all.”

Posted on April 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dirt roads are new rails to trails.

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“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.”

Posted on April 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bond villains have all the luck.

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2017: “14,542 of the gun deaths (37.4%) were murders”

Posted on April 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If we consider only per-capita murder, how does US compare to Canada and Germany?

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How macOS manages iOS apps: “I think that RunningBoard has quite a future.”

Posted on April 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The age of reckless consumption is ending.

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“Neither murder charge required the jury to find that Mr. Chavin intended to kill Mr. Floyd.”

Posted on April 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Very helpful. Makes me think verdict might withstand appeal.

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Solarwinds details.

Posted on April 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Russia may be the best at cyberwar.

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“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.”

Posted on April 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Generosity is the curious one. US ahead of Canada?!

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“modest, but I would say somewhat important association of short sleep and dementia risk”

Posted on April 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need animal models, there is no way to figure out the causality in humans.

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