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Russia hid 2/3 of its COVID deaths.

Posted on December 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Why admit it?

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“Pandemic and quarantine and economic collapse and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and anti-maskers and the election and the Stupidest Attempted Coup in Modern World History and 300,000 people dead”

Posted on December 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. My small personal writing project stuck too.

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Future war: “one trend in 21st century defense will be reassuringly human: the continued rise of special forces”

Posted on December 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. All with college degrees. In the US the military was a major government run employment service for the non-college. That will slowly go away.

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State colleges face the crunch.

Posted on December 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Overspent on amenities but depending on budget quirks they might not have saved much of that anyway.

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“constraints on the amount of spatial curvature we have … tell us that it must go on for at least ~400 times the part visible to us in all directions”

Posted on December 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Furthest theoretically visible object is 61 billion ly. “energy conservation only works at a particular location, not for the expanding Universe”

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“The intellectual forces behind Goldwater’s sudden rise thought that Eisenhower and J.F.K. were agents, wittingly or otherwise, of the Communist conspiracy”

Posted on December 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Democracy, like science, is not something most humans enjoy.

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Wonder Woman 1984 Is Bursting With Unfinished Thoughts | Tor.com

Posted on December 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I agree. There’s a good movie buried by odd choices. The possession was nuts.

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“We seem in India to be regressing into a Hindu version of Pakistan”

Posted on December 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A bad case of Trump-disease.

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Chinese Demography: first of a series

Posted on December 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Noah Simpson is doing a series on China’s Power.

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Zika: “the virus ran its course, infected a large portion of the population, and herd immunity developed”

Posted on December 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There wasn’t time to test a vaccine. Good retrospective, I went looking for it.

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There is a climate doom cult around “Deep Adaptation” book.

Posted on December 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Poorly edited piece obfuscates how bad book is.

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“in reality, there’s no clear cutoff between a virus that travels in aerosols and one that travels in larger droplets”

Posted on December 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Names are powerful. Confusing classification with reality is a perennial problem in medicine. The model is not the truth.

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“For hours, the alarm on the teacher’s bedside monitor bleated. Her oxygen level was dangerously low, her pulse racing and her blood pressure soaring. Still, she remained conscious, saying she could not breathe”

Posted on December 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. South Africa. Spread there is weird.

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Toxic Fumes On Planes.

Posted on December 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “Senior Boeing engineers worried that data from sensors would prove damaging in lawsuits by sick passengers and crew member.”. Another job for Biden.

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Nuclear weapons agency breached.

Posted on December 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Cybersecurity agency overwhelmed.

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“Russia has not terminated its chemical weapons program, but has instead disguised its development capability behind a network of state-run institutes.”

Posted on December 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Very bad people.

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“President Trump’s grants of clemency to convicted liars, corrupt congressmen and child-killing war criminals”

Posted on December 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. His people.

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How Amazon Wins.

Posted on December 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Ugly.

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Immunocompromised hosts accelerate viral evolution.

Posted on December 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Obviously must happen all viruses, not just COVID-19.

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Middle class existence requires a college degree.

Posted on December 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This has been true for a long time.

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536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

Posted on December 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Icelandic volcano. Took a lot to kill the Roman Empire.

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The US needs genomic surveillance now.

Posted on December 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. When high risk mutants identified intensify local vaccination and reduce spread.

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Camera geekery: ProRAW.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Goes deep fast.

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Brave CEO is a Trumpista.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Do not give this guy money.

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For history: Trump pardons of 12/22/2020.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hoping we find new crimes to return them to prison.

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Pollster comes close to admitting urban riots cost Dems Senate.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m amazed Biden pulled it off.

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“Park Avenue apartment that Ms. Vrablic, Mr. Scalzi and another Deutsche Bank colleague purchased for about $1.5 million from a company called Bergel 715 Associates in June 2013. Mr. Kushner held an ownership stake in that company at the time.”

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There is so much of this ahead.

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Germany also has a Nazi problem.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. 2020.

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“The Ashburn area outside D.C. is the largest data center market in the world,” said Mr. Lin of Equinix. “It’s really the hub of the digital economy in a lot of ways”

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Underseas cables come ashore.

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Seoul COVID eruption.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t explain how controls failed. We thought SK was on top of this thing.

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FFmpeg FOSS video editing toolkit.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Are there similar projects now?

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SolarWinds was good at selling to government.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The disaster analysis should focus on why SolarWinds won government contracts. I suspect this will highlight regulations and laws that confound gov software buys.

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Save America, move to Austin.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It could work.

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Ad Tech bubble.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The tech is camouflage, the real story is monopoly rent.

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“Some of them are also less afraid of contracting Covid-19 because the pandemic appears to have been mostly stamped out in China, he said.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Easier decision here.

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Spike model: “… an innovation that was rejected for publication by scientific journals five times because reviewers questioned its relevance.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Genius needs persistence.

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Pfizer anaphylaxis – PEG or not.

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good review of the analyses.

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“Trump’s unofficial election advisory council now includes a felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. In the movie this kind of team always wins in the end.

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“Case studies on these immunocompromised people have shown that the virus can accumulate a large number of mutations as it replicates in their bodies for a long period of time.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Grim news.

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“Mr. Trump was tweeting out anti-mask claims minutes after Mr. Pence received his vaccine.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Pence v Trump will be fun to watch.

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Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive.

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Mass delusions are common in every culture and history. Sometimes they destroy societies, most often they collapse. What do experts say about engagement with the deluded?

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“The Republican Party has been radicalized, with countless Republican lawmakers and other prominent figures within the party having revealed themselves to be moral cowards”

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No moral credibility at Federal level.

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A little more clarity on the latest fail of US cybersecurity.

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That we know of.

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“skepticism of science, impatience with health restrictions, prioritization of personal politics over public safety, undisciplined communications, chaotic management style, indulgence of conspiracies, proclivity toward magical thinking, allowance of tur

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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“If you disable SIP on an Apple Silicon Mac, you lose support for the Apple DRM. (FairPlay)”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Follow the money.

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“AppTrackingTransparency is a great step forward for Apple. When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Suck it Facebook.

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“An arrangement brokered by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will deliver cheap vaccines throughout most of Latin America.”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Credit.

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My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy.

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t actually say a *President* Trump was good for democracy.

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Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease — my ABFM QI project criteria.

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I like my new personal CKD monitoring checklist.

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“police killings went from about 4% of violent U.S. deaths at the turn of the century to about 9% in the 2010s”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need so much more social science research.

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