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“That activity has put a strain on Robinhood, which has to pay customers who are owed money from trades while posting additional cash to its clearing facility to insulate its trading partners from potential losses.”

Posted on January 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They aren’t big enough to handle this.

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J&J vaccine and the variants.

Posted on January 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is the time for voters to *scream* at GOP legislators to free up funds. We need to ring fence the variants so we need base control urgently.

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“On the day of the vote, Lee — who had to escape the Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001 in high heels — decided to wear tennis shoes, just in case.”

Posted on January 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dem reps realizing the GOP legislators are insane.

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“the editorial board was making a busy work editorial, and it was foolish.”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dissing the EOs. WaPo is less stupid and a cheaper subscription.

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“A party starts out complaining that taxes are too high; after a while it begins claiming that climate change is a giant hoax; it ends up believing that all Democrats are Satanist pedophiles.”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Where has this happened before?

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Game. Stop. – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk

Posted on January 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Must read.

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“don’t force people to subsidize Fox News by including it in basic packages.”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Cable packages that is. The word is getting out. Get rid of your cable TV service now.

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“that this is a strain more transmissible but not more severe — that’s not what is happening in Manaus”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Manaus is the laboratory for what happens when you follow Denialist advice.

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Google maps adds smart routing for EVs with charge stop plans

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. High value if works.

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Filibuster “win”.

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “It is critical to find a way to structure a lot of votes, and work press coverage of them, to make Republicans own their opposition to popular legislation.”

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Black nursing home staff in Maryland initially refuse vaccine.

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Many respond to patient and individual counseling. Patients often vaccinated. Question is how long to wait before mandate.

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The minimum wage pushback – Noahpinion

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Keep as a reference. Federal gov interesting case since spans states.

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“B.1.351 seems to evade the Lilly monoclonal outright, although the two-antibody Regeneron cocktail still seems effective as that mixture.”

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In some situations we will need to type specific patients.

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“GameStop looks less like a speculative bubble and more like a contemporary, internet-mediated version of the “bull raids” that were characteristic of the stock market in the early 20th century”

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bryson’s 1927 book mentions these. I think has happened in China for years. Good to see private equity get hurt.

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23kya humans and wolves were isolated in Siberia – and dogs were a result.

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A hypothesis for the start of a good relationship.

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“M1 MacBook Pro could not provide enough power through the two T3 ports to power both SSDs”

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“Many users have reported a worrisome issue with the M1 chip devices. The computers crash suddenly and restart randomly.”

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Yep, seeing that. Waiting to decide whether return or not. Do not buy.

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“For just $596, an online fraud-protection company that Giuliani called “the only folks to trust that I know of” was selling four years of online defense from home-stealing “cyber thieves.”

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“Pentagon essentially took that power and other authorities away from him ahead of a pro-Trump protest on Jan. 6.”

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lots of murkiness but not yet conspiracy.

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The GOP Dem Senators: “Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona”

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Winning Ohio seems unlikely – but would be very helpful. Also, we need these two even if we don’t love them.

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Portrait of a cultist: Navy SEAL Trumpist.

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I wonder if even Trump could deprogram him. Non-college (enlisted).

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Analysis of remote work by a digital nomad.

Posted on January 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He concludes there are still big advantages to urban clusters. I agree. I’d add developing friendships snd alliances within a company is much easier in person.

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Big Sur bug: turn off iCloud syncing for Apple News or burn your data plan.

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nasty.

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Publishing code as HTML in WordPress articles.

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. For both viewing and copy/paste. I think would work on any web page?

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Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera.

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I was shocked to see the Brownie picture — because I think my father might have had the real thing. I remember touching it.

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How to Use Your iPhone as a Webcam

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Ani6 gives better results than almost any webcam.

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“Minnesota will hold a clinic to vaccinate 15,000 metro area Minnesotans who work in schools or child care facilities.”

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Finally.

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#Jan25: Arab Spring 10 years Later

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not forgotten.

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From 2005: Creating a reference (inetloc) to an network share (smb, afp) that works with keychain (OS X 10.3 – macOS 10.14)

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Frustrated with Mojave refusing to remember my slide share folder I dimly recalled a solution from 2005 using inetloc files. Written for OS X 10.3 it works on Mojave.

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“no evidence that Mr. Black had participated in any of Mr. Epstein’s criminal activities, or that Mr. Epstein had ever introduced Mr. Black to any underage girl”

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Epstein gave great advice on avoiding taxes and Mr Black was terribly grateful so he gave Epstein lots of millions.

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NYT Firing of Lauren Wolfe.

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “we didn’t end someone’s employment over a single tweet” Article says she had a contingent employment arrangement, not full employee.

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Adjusting to a $15 minimim wage.

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Reasonable precautions.

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ICYMI: “A U.S. carrier group entered the South China Sea, immediately after China mounted a large aerial incursion of Taiwan’s air defense zone.”

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I have always thought Taiwan had secret nuclear weapons.

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Lockdowns and COVID: fiendishly hard to study.

Posted on January 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sometimes we have to go with expert advice amd extrapolation.

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Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Teachers over 45 should be immunized alongside general population over 65.

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Saving democracy: A Dem alliance.

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t think we were this smart. No more “defund the police”. They were ready to flood the streets if Trump succeeded in his coup.

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Put display to sleep on Mac with Touch ID: ctrl-shift-power replaced by hot corner

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I sleep display when I go to bed.

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Fauci: “It isn’t like I took any pleasure in contradicting the president of the United States. I have a great deal of respect for the office. But I made a decision that I just had to. Otherwise I would be compromising my own integrity, and be giving a f

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Birx was the good soldier who didn’t contradict the commander. Sadly.

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macOS: “UserDefaults doesn’t help the user here, and can’t even restore defaults. That must be why it bears its name.”

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There’s always a temptation to start over. It’s rarely a good idea.

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Birx: “I was not going to go outside of the chain of command”

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A good soldier, even when her nation needed something better.

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mRNA Vaccines: What Happens.

Posted on January 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Way more complicated than the cartoon version.

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“36,000 pertussis deaths from 1926 to 1930 in the United States, most in young infants; from 1970 to 1974, there were 52”

Posted on January 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Now I know why we call it “acellular”.

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Atrial fibrillation and alcohol.

Posted on January 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If you have intermittent afib try stopping alcohol. I’m a bit skeptical though. More research.

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Don’t blame your hub when your USB Flash (thumb) drive disconnects from your Mac

Posted on January 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. But let me know if you have one that passes this test!

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Hush: free content blocker for Safari.

Posted on January 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I will get.

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“ informed Mr. Rosen midday on Sunday that the president intended to replace him with Mr. Clark, who could then try to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College results.”

Posted on January 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So many impeaxhable acts.

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OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub

Posted on January 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “it’s taking forever to get USB-C to where USB-A hubs are—and were 20+ years ago—in terms of price or number of ports, but this is progress.”

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Fake GOP rage over Biden’s ‘unity’ speech is a sucker’s game.

Posted on January 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The NYT is pathetically eager to play the sucker.

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The FBI seems to have a lot of evidence on the Oath Keeper attackers.

Posted on January 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They are not cognitively gifted.

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“More than 400 teachers and other staff members couldn’t report to school, he said, because they were infected or quarantined, and there weren’t enough substitutes to fill in”

Posted on January 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Atlanta suburb with a high comcentration of stupid. (70% Trump)

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