Link. Maybe we should think of GOP politiciams as victims, much like GOP Left Behind. They are not in on the scam, they are dupes.
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“majority of those who contracted the virus at work did so while eating in a break room with a mask off.”
Link. Mayo clinic, MN.
Humdifiers can decrease COVID spread.
Link. Another tool.
Humdifiers can decrease COVID spread.
Link. Another tool.
“two board members, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, apparently weren’t prepared for the intensity of the response”
Link. They live in an imaginary world.
“iOS software uses reference counting for memory management, running on silicon optimized to make reference counting as efficient as possible”
Link. I didn’t expect them to do so well.
Biden’s lost agenda
Link. “Wave good-bye to it, but don’t give up entirely. There’s something in there that can be saved.”
Amazon Pharmacy: “Compare your medication cost with and without insurance before you pay.”
Link. That is a game changer. Long expected, still big news.
“at least three health care workers who interacted with infected patients—a medical resident, an ambulance worker, and a gastroenterologist—also developed illness, with two eventually dying”
Link. Biden can’t rebuild CDC soon enough.
“Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures”
Link. Most people’s signatures are inconsistent, so this is a GOP ploy to eliminate mail-in ballots — which are mostly Dem. Graham is a scum’s scum.
Hoover disowns Atlas.
Link. Or at least Stanford speaking for Hoover.
Offline YouTube videos: “youtube-dl ‘URL-TO-VIDEO-HERE’ and it just works.”
Link. Sounds useful.
Barcelona superblocks.
Link. Getting there … one day.
“What I think is fair is to take a look at what’s happened in Canada, where they still have had big problems but their death rate per capita is about 61 percent lower than ours. “
Link. Obama brakes the American rule – “never compare to Canada”.
“Everything we hear is that the individual postal workers have been working hard and working overtime, doing everything they could to follow their instructions and do everything they could to deliver ballots on time,”
Link. Hope DeJoy gets to spend some time in front of investigations.
Newton’s ‘Principia’: 386 copies in all, including ones far beyond England in Budapest; Oslo; Prague; Zagreb, Croatia; the Vatican; and Gdansk, Poland.
Link. A much bigger initial impact than once thought. (Caltech historian!)
Parler, Backed by Mercer Family
Link. So at least not Moscow alone. Design sounds decent. No algorithm!
Donald Trump is a sign of a healthy democracy (from 2015).
Link. Written before the catastrophe, back when he was a comical figure. I’m writing an update on why mission #1 for Dems is engineering big income increases for the non-college (aka The Left Behind).
Evernote Goes Electron.
Link. Sadness.
“I assume that malicious actors are investigating how to launch a denial-of-service attack against ocsp.apple.com.”
Link. Big Apple screw-up.
“Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed”
Link. Zawahiri next?
“Biden has not only appeared unthreatened by Trump’s attacks—he’s seemed to react to each desperate maneuver with a mixture of amusement and pity.”
Link. Biden is not as nice as people think he is.
Trump state health care workers over the abyss.
Link. In a just universe the GOP legislators and governors would have to do patient care.
Addressing economic disruption of remote work.
Link. The tax isn’t politically feasible but I had not considered all the longterm disruptions of persistent telework.
The Best USB-C Hubs in 2020.
Link. Essential now.
“White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, whose 30-year-old director, John McEntee, has recently intensified efforts to purge appointees who have failed to demonstrate sufficient fealty to the president”
Link. Marvel and DC have both featured supervillain presidents.
Big Sur: some Photos and Messages improvements.
Link. Yawn.
Minneapolis violence hits 1990s levels.
Link. This was widely expected. COVID + broken police department + riots.
2021 iPhones sound like real improvements.
Link. I can wait.
Apple has two system status pages.
Link. I actively avoid reliance on Apple services.
“this summer’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota was “absolutely unnecessary,’ and that data shows it helped spread the virus beyond that state”
Link. MN Health department feels Sturgis was a true disaster. It’s bad to be ruled by anti-science.
“The GOP, as it is, is a cancer of American democracy”
Link. The modern GOP is a marker of a civilization that is breaking down. We don’t have much time to recerse this.
“hedge fund manager Bill Ackman was able to replicate exactly the same credit default swap bet, at exactly the same prices, that he made in February — the one where he turned $27 million into $2.6 billion in the space of less than a month.”
Link. Learn to live cheaply.
Krebs – an honorable man: “Trump officials are mad that CISA refuted a conspiracy theory alleging that a covert intelligence agency supercomputer (supposedly named Hammer and Scorecard) quietly flipped votes nationwide”
Link. We should have a special award ceremony for civil servants who did their job and paid a price. Followed by rehiring and promotion.
“the Pfizer vaccine can be kept safely for up to five days in a normal refrigerator”
Link. Article by a geek physician is pretty good.
Current take on why our polling sucks.
Link. Current GOP voters are less likely to answer a poll even when control for education, income, race, etc.
Mass Disability – how did I come up with 40%?
Link. Another 2016 post I’m rewriting for 2020. Link to the sleepless night post — after Trump’s win.
2017: “Democrats and white middle class” – post-election analysis
Link. I’m going to get back to this one. Shortly after the election Trump won.
“The president has insisted to aides that he really defeated Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Nov. 3, but it is unclear whether he actually believes it”
Link. He despises his male lackeys as weakimgs. He enjoys seeing Graham dance.
Salvaging American government.
Link. GOP war on America.
No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.
Link. Trump doing his usual fraud.
“It’s meaningless, you know, people calling for you to be beheaded, fired, thrown in the fire pit or whatever … That’s just noise. You don’t pay attention to that.”
Link. Fauci in the Trump pit.
Herd immunity: “As of Wednesday, more than 85 percent of the prison’s inmates had tested positive”
Link. Worth studying.
GOP reaction to Biden win is 21st century normal.
Link. Really dates to 1990s. Boosted by Trumpism but this is the norm now.
“The expanding array of relatively low-cost drones can offer countries air power at a fraction of the cost of maintaining a traditional air force”
Link. “ Unable to match Azerbaijan’s drone power, Armenian forces, demoralized and racked by covid-19, suffered a series of military calamities.”
“Mr. Trump abruptly installed Mr. Miller as acting defense secretary this week — making him, at least on paper, Mr. Pompeo’s equal for the administration’s last two months.”
Link. Ooh, that must sting. Poor Pompeo.
Whacko idea of PA GOP picking electors is even more whacked than you think.
Link. Don’t give it much thought.
Is the Coup Happening?
Link. A long post by Dr Gelwan’s standards. He marshals the evidence. TLDR – maybe it is underway, but it seems farcical and incompetent. Trump’s saving grace.
“Because I’m a mammal,” the girlfriend replied, which only pissed Musk off even more.”
Link. Women who date billionaires are far above my station, but were I young and single I might ask.
“more than 4 trillion photos are stored in Google Photos, and every week 28 billion new photos and videos are uploaded”
Link. In 20 years every atom on earth will be part of Google Photo storage. Turns out “free” doesn’t scale. (Remember when free gmail storage cap increases routinely?)