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“My experience has been that Google’s results are much better than Bing’s, which are better than DuckDuckGo’s”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. True, but Google results were much better 10 years ago.

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“LG 27UK850-W is a good monitor for the price”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. More than a review, also a tutorial on modern PC displays. I usually just buy the mid-range Dell but my eyes suck.

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“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Facebook hasn’t got a tentacle to slither on.

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“be surprised if Zoom’s source code and server infrastructure was not riddled with backdoors and eavesdropping features.”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Yeah.

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Redfield gestures Trump towards the bus.

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “CDC head said one thing that has disappointed him is the inconsistent messaging and politicization over mask wearing.”

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“since 2015, Defense Department training accidents have exceeded combat deaths worldwide.”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Must read.

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MAGAts call for Insurrection Act.

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Owning the Libs gets even more expensive.

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COVID-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome, raising calls for early vaccination | Science | AAAS

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Germany doing early vaccination.

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HIV vaccine fails, but better ones coming.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We got lucky with COVID.

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COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity: at worst a manageable annoyance.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Even if we don’t drive R < 1 we can get to reasonable normal. (He doesn’t mention animal reservoirs)

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Gmail Click-time Link Protections

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The Evil is strong.

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NeoFinder – “Affinity Photo DAM”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I like the theory. Still on Aperture.

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Texas vs. Google: “how Google convinced so many employees that AMP was good with such transparently bad reasons.”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Motivated reasoning. I’m surprised HOW evil Google is.

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Where Is End-to-End Encryption for iCloud?

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Your iCloud backups are available on demand.

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Republican “shock”: “my pledge is I won’t engage these discussions or treat them as meaningful or serious.”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Laughter or silence are our options.

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“we are adding outlining to MindNode”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Next few months.

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“anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Russians not necessarily genius?

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Podcasts in Big Sur.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Abandon hope.

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Preview in Big Sur Destroying PDFs Again

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “I don’t think it’s yet recovered from the rewrite five or so years ago.”

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Facebook seeking politicians.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Go Apple.

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“his swipe at Mitch McConnell today was really barely a swipe at all.”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I noticed. He is more controlled than he seems.

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“corrupt Democrat politicians and election officials who support Black Lives Matter and who use voter fraud and voter suppression”

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. BLM enraged Trump’s base like nothing else. it was his great hope. Team Biden won despite that.

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“Reagan and his officials spent years denying the threat from acid rain while insisting that evolution was just a theory and promoting the teaching of creationism in schools.”

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Evangelical dominance and shift of base to white non-college began in 70s, likely reaction to civil rights movement. The feedback loop reinforced over last 50 years. (Carter was religious but very stong on science.)

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Squeezing the CDC.

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This summary is less alarming than I expected. Damage done, but also resistance. It can be built back better.

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Squeezing the CDC.

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This summary is less alarming than I expected. Damage done, but also resistance. It can be built back better.

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COVID anosmia from the inside.

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A hard blow deserving of sympathy.

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“Although the M1-based Macs have only two Thunderbolt ports, they each have their own bus and support the Thunderbolt 4 option that enables the use of Thunderbolt hubs.”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That is a big enhancement.

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“Each kit, which tests a single swab sample, is expected to cost about $30 or less”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Home antigen test. Expensive for most, gov subsidy would be wise.

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COVID associated Autoantibody Problems

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Some preexisting. Immune responses are crazy idiosyncratic and remarkably chaotic.

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3 of 7 WI supreme court justices tried to throw out WI democracy.

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Those 3 were already known as the worst of the worst. Remnber this.

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“The Republican speaker of the house, Lee Chatfield, responded by stripping him of committee assignments, then issuing a statement forcefully rejecting pleas to appoint a separate, Trump-backed slate of electors”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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“the defeat of Trump, the populist standard-bearer, is creating a sense in other populist-ruled countries that the juggernaut has stalled.”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It’s not over, but there is hope.

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“We are at the start of a high-speed global transition, at least for the mass market, from born-fed-and-slaughtered beef, pork and chicken to ‘cultivated’ versions of the same meat.”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There are billions of chickens now. In 30 years perhaps tens of thousands?

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Pornhub: “The vast majority of the content on the website, which is one of the most trafficked each day online, appears to have been taken down.”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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“Nearly all Fortune 500 companies, including The New York Times, use SolarWinds products to monitor their networks. So does Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m sure there are no other vulnerabilities.

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“many other viruses share similar abilities; they just don’t infect millions of people in a matter of months or grab the attention of the entire scientific community”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Many of our viruses are nastier than most imagine.

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Educational legal analysis of one of Trump’s failed suits.

Posted on December 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like his lawyers weren’t idiots, they simply had a hopeless case.

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“Japan doesn’t have birthright citizenship, so many native-born residents of Japan, who speak no language other than Japanese, hold foreign passports.”

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Essay on diversity in Japan.

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Pandemic Heroes: Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang and Doctor Li Wenliang of China.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Despite Xi.

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A story of migrant separation and reunion — and some incredibly kind Americans.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It’s a story about Ms Peren and Yovany, and thus touches lightly on those who helped them, but it is good to read of those people. The anti-Trumps essentially.

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Bicycling Surges in Manila: “It’s really fun, like you’ve unlocked something overwhelming.”

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Based on photo of a portion his bike it should serve him well for many years.

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“I have not found a single outbreak traced to a movie theater”

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Talking/singing when aligned with air flow — your mouth to my mouth carried by air currents. In Las Vegas casinos with indoor smoking air flow is unusual. Masks work in part by decreasing talking.

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Apple Silicon M1 problems: Big Sur.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. BS sounds like it might be ok next summer. Better than Catalina!

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Vaccine strategy trials.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Cutting 2nd Pfizer vaccine dose in half for under 65 is worth doing.

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Energy optimism.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. College degree not required.

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“Petersen used a portion of the money to smuggle dozens of pregnant Marshallese women in to the United States and offered them $10,000 once the baby was born”

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This is a special flavor of despicable evil.

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An iOS Zero-click Radio Proximity Exploit

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “A fairly trivial buffer overflow programming error in C++ code in the kernel parsing untrusted data, exposed to remote attackers.” See aside on why OS protections fail – legacy code.

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Family Sharing for Subscriptions and IAPs

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Makes subscription model better — but only when cost of switching to competitor is low or data is disposable.

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“deliciously stupid but frighteningly anti-democratic traitor tots”

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. What a great phrase.

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“X-Mode would pay to embed its SDK into other developers’ applications in exchange for the location data it collects.” Sold to military and others.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. App Store not all bad.

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