Link. Almost as bad as churches. Seriously, once we opened churches hard to reatrict anything.
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“organizations stay ahead of malware operations — a truly rare sight in today’s cyber-security field.”
Link. Ummm. ok, how bad are things really?
“Some predatory bacteria are amenable to eating dozens, if not hundreds, of bacterial species, enabling them to thrive in most habitats.”
Link. What else don’t I know? Discovered 50y ago.
COVID infection risk: a multifactor model.
Link. Outdoors takes care of just about every risk.
“if a thief (or law enforcement, or any adversary) has the device passcode, and your iCloud password is in your keychain, they can get your iCloud password from your keychain.”
Link. OOPS.
“Why didn’t Apple just make the repair program available to all the affected models?”
Link. Greed?
Yelp! sucks
Link. Apple enabled them.
Protest violence will reelect Trump
Link. Putin will do everything possible to increase violemce
“Falwell knew that Cohen (and almost certainly Trump) knew information that could destroy Falwell’s life.”
Link. The Evangelical’s Antichrist came with screaming sirens and flashing lights. They fell for Trump anyway. They can’t plead ignorance come the Judgement.
“Why Manaus will be the first Brazilian city to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic,”
Link. A curious epidemic. High deaths then it passed.
“What makes Trump truly extraordinary is not just that he acts so unethically. It is that he is so open about it, because he can’t conceive there would be anything wrong with anything he does to help himself.”
Link. Solipsism as a form of madness.
Stephen Hahn screwed up his plasma numbers.
Link. To his credit he corrected himself. Stress of the moment, and eagerness to please Trump.
Anti-obesity programs vs fat-shaming guilt.
Link. There are many many ways to reduce obesity, but public health has to say diabetes and steatohepatitis are not desirable diseases and physicians have to tell people when they are at risk.
Russia: “The chairman of the ethics committee in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Aleksandr Chuchalin, quit as the ministry was in the process of approving the vaccine.”
Link. Only 1/4 Russian physicians willing to take it
“The search engines were better in the 90s than google is now. Alta Vista was better than google is now.”
Link. Yes. I used 90s Alta Vista. Google crushed it, but even as #2 it was better than what we have now.
“Clear concepts like permissions have become so heavily embroidered and encumbered that they’re barely recognisable.”
Link. There’s no-one in charge.
Free tool: “takes Google [photo]’s directory structure and all their duplicated files, merges, sorts, and deduplicates your photos and videos into a sane folder structure”
Link. We need open source media management data standards.
“People who carried the most fat around their midsections — a major risk factor for metabolic disease — had significantly less weight gain when they switched from sugary drinks to diet beverages or water.”
Link. A bit of revival for the sweetemers.
“nonchalant attitude toward what were once thought to be major breaking points reflects an evolution in the way investors, economists and central bankers think about government debt.”
Link. We were wrong.
Iran’s true struggle manifest in torture of one geek
Link. The war is between the cognitive elite and the non-college fundamentalists. Sound familiar?
Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?
Link. Climate change, population, accumulated fuel.
“P-Best, for Pooling-Based Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Testing — successfully detected positives in pools of as many as 48 samples”
Link. Algorithm works best with low positivity rate.
“allegations were a cynical attempt to manipulate the powerful emotions surrounding sexual misconduct and assault.”
Link. Shock.
Kenya: “Covid-19 has so far infected 700 health workers and killed more than 10″
Link. Lots of disease, worse IFR.
Regenerating cartilage in mice: “the method of awakening the dormant cells is relatively simple, and the drugs required are already on the market.”
Link. Orthopedic surgeons are sure to try this.
Managing the demented driver: use a fake key fob.
Link. Doctors need this one. Has to match the real fob.
“News Feed Preferences are absolutely worth exploring if you want even the slightest bit of curation in what you see on Facebook”
Link. Great overview of latest reboot.
“It was very clear that people who were donating were donating for rebuilding efforts,”
Link. Definitely. The racial justice pivot is wrong.
“If the whole Earth were broken up into pebbles, and each of those pebbles smashed into tens of thousands of specks of grit, you would still have fewer pieces of grit than the world has virions.”
Link. Gray goo.
“a fifth of single-celled plankton are killed by viruses every day”
Link. Bloody hell.
Unicode: “You may be surprised to learn that some code comparisons, such as Swift’s NSString.isEqual(), don’t work properly across normalised forms, but others such as == do”
Link. Gets deep.
Aperture For Catalina
Link. “make sure to copy the NyXAudioAnalysis.framework from /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks from your Mojave or earlier OS. It’s not present on Catalina.”
“I just can’t stop thinking about Brayden’s triumph.”
Link. Imagine the guy’s parents. I’d be a wreck.
“the men and women rode more often during the two weeks with e-bikes, averaging about five rides a week then, versus three a week with the standard cycles.”
Link. Less intense but more frequent exercise. I would buy one for Emily so I can go faster on our rides.
“there’s a whole beautiful if troubled country out there. We just have to figure out the way back.”
Link. There is one more chance.
Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
Link. “They supported it with a long proof — 200 gigabytes in size — justifying their conclusion.”
The Republican Embrace of QAnon: “coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world”
Link. Either the GOP dies (to be reborn) or America dies.
“Over 70 former Republican national security officials including ex-CIA and FBI chiefs will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday”
Link. The final hour.
Xi wants a Maoist purge.
Link. Uneasy sits the head …
Testing monoclonal antibodies in nursing home outbreaks
Link. Excellent.
Apple PE Ratio 2006-2020.
Link. Now similar to Facebook. Historically Apple was relatively undervalued, now is in range of other tech companies.
Transcript: Barack Obama’s DNC speech.
Link. The ripping Trump to shreds part is surprisingly brief. The bigger focus is a call to vote, to not let democracy die. (He only indicts GOP indirectly in terms of Trump enablers.)
Obama analysis: “The fear that we ourselves will not sufficiently attend to the notion that our “unique polity” and “way of life” are worth preserving, and that this is the ultimate existential threat to them, because this is what leaves us vuln
Link. Evangelicals are one group not fond of democracy.
How Probability Misleads Us About The Universe
Link. In general medicine it is fairly common to see a rare disease, but uncommem to see the same one twice. There are a lot of rare diseases.
COVID myocarditis.
Link. “in young patients who had seemingly overcome SARS-CoV-2 it’s fairly common for the heart to be affected”
“To gain full access to any privacy-protected directory, all an attacker has to do is establish an ssh connection”
Link. Apple left this open intentionally? Hard to grasp why unfixed.
“higher the B.M.I., the lower the blood flow to five regions of the brain that are especially vulnerable in Alzheimer’s disease …”
Link. Correlation is not causation. Obesity is inversely related to education.
Why Pooled Testing for the Coronavirus Isn’t Working
Link. Need positivity < 10% to be effective
COVID plasma therapy: meh.
Link. Not a game changer
“French said he did not understand the magnitude of the issues homeless people suffer from, including mental illness, addiction and the predators who take advantage of them”
Link. Few understand.