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Eviction moratorium likely unconstitutional.

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. No kidding. I am surprised it has gone this long.

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How to remove startup items on your Mac

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. After system migration we need to review these. Which is insane. Login items, launch agent, StartupItems. Check launchctl list.

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“in January, Fox reported monthly ratings that fell behind both of its main cable news competitors, CNN and MSNBC, for the first time in 20 years”

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Carlson, who is eight years younger than Hannity, is said to be close with the Murdoch family, particularly Lachlan.” Cancel your cable contract. That’s where Fox gets money.

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Survey of people with mostly mild COVID: “persistent symptoms were reported by 17 of 64 patients (26.6%) aged 18 to 39 years, 25 of 83 patients (30.1%) aged 40 to 64 years, and 13 of 30 patients (43.3%) aged 65 years and older.”

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Persistent symptoms mostly loss of smell/taste, fatigue, “brain fog”.

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Another Apple Discussions thread on M1 Air crashes grows.

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. These tend to get purged. I suspect problem is much worse when doing Fast-User Switching.

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“Hidden variables theories that violate statistical independence give Superdeterminism its name.”

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sabine skirts the full implications for “free will”. I wonder if this is not “many worlds”from an orthogonal perspective.

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F.C.C. Approves a $50 Monthly High-Speed Internet Subsidy

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m pretty sure this is a waste of money.

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“it becomes clear how well Mr. Xi and his government have tamed the Chinese internet”

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The 90s got it wrong. Technology does not grow freedom. Freedom is built on law and culture.

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Rents fall, home costs rise.

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Truly weird market. Amazing drop in available housing for purchase.

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ACA fixes, but no publc option.

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Even this is a miracle after GOP abuse. Why we can’t cancel Manchin.

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60 black holes … “packed into a space barely larger than our own solar system”

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Best seen from a distance.

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Stimulus checks in ABLE accounts for disabled.

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. ABLE accounts are a disaster in many states. Including Minnesota. Reform is desperately needed.

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NYT on WaPo after Bezos.

Posted on February 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. WaPo needs to improve science coverage to fully equal NYT. Subscription fees are much less.

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“the Faroe Islands currently have the most Nobel laureates per capita worldwide”

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “some Faroese men have married women from the Philippines and Thailand, whom they met through such channels as online dating websites, and arranged for them to emigrate to the islands. This group of approximately three hundred women make up the largest ethnic minority in the Faroes.”

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“city will enter into contracts with six social media influencers who will be paid $2,000 each to share “city-generated and approved messages” with the African-American, Native American, East African, Hmong and Latino communities”

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Riots expected.

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“leader Kim Jong Un actually issued an apology to his people for the way the leadership handled the pandemic”

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sounds really bad.

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Fastmail has Spy Pixel protection.

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So does gmail apparently. Under the wing of Lucifer so to speak.

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“tying minimum wages to rent provides an incentive for cities to build more housing.”

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Biden policy is also good.

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“Texas facility is run not by Border Patrol, but by the Office of Refugee Resettlement”

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Don’t be a toy of Stephen Miller ffs.

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How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling.

Posted on February 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. if you need speed set your SSD on a cold pack.

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“So in this sense the success of Fermi Liquid Theory in describing electricity looks like a pure accident.”

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He’s got a point.

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Congress vs the the behemoths: “Data interoperability and portability: Users should be able to take their data elsewhere with ease”

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Smart lawmakers. Behemoths incented to get GOP in power asap.

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“exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own ideology, authoritarian by reflex, controlled as a personality cult by a failing old man, and looking for new adventures to rejuvenate its fortunes.”

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. GOP is 1970s Soviet.

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“By mid-February, the Caltech team found that B.1.526 cases had risen to 27 percent of viral sequences in the database.”

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. #deepsigh

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“Two long sections of DNA, both inherited from Neanderthals, appear to confer resistance or susceptibility to severe covid-19”

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Fascinating article.

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Checking disks on an M1 Mac

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Essential reference.

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Nursing Home Deaths Plummet – but cases no longer falling worldwide.

Posted on February 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Could have gone without those pesky variants.

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“Ultimately, if we could address those symptoms directly, we might be able to get rid of diagnostic categories altogether”

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Psychiatric diagnostic categories don’t work very well. Including “autism”.

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“The Cherokee and other Native American nations originally in the South had purchased enslaved Black people as laborers in the 18th and 19th centuries, and had brought them along when they were driven westward by white settlers.”

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Promises were broken.

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“Twelve hours before that instructor experienced his first symptoms, he held several small kickboxing sessions and a personal training session. Of 11 people exposed, 10 became infected “

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 1 went to ICU. Heck of an attack rate!

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Double disk world map.

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Cartographers who regularly study world maps — perhaps fewer than 10 people — will now have time to react.”

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COVID Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children ages 6-12

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Black children appeared to be at greater risk for developing the inflammatory syndrome than the acute illness.”. Usually these differences turn out to be environmemtal rather than genetic.

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“To enable Cinematic photos on existing pictures that were not taken in multi-view stereo, we trained a convolutional neural network with encoder-decoder architecture to predict a depth map”

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Age of wonders.

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“Apple should take a long hard look at Mail and the way that it does nothing to protect users’ privacy from these trackers.”

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Pixel trackers in email. Even Outlook does better.

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“If we burn lots of calories with, for instance, physical activity, we burn fewer with some other biological system, such as reproduction or immune responses.”

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We believe exercise helps with overactive immune systems. I never thought of the caloric aspects though. I don’t entirely believe this research but I am persuadable.

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“fixated for years on the notion that alien reptiles who inhabited underground tunnels controlled the earth”

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I think in studies of mass stress about 1/10 to 1/3 of hunans are mentally robust. The human brain is a radical evolutionary hack that needs another million years of work.

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COVID reduced Japan deaths.

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Indirectly. Suicide rates up. Expect mortality jump as Japan returns to normalcy.

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“mental landscape of someone falling ever more deeply down rabbit holes of groundless claims.”

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I have seem this happen. This year tears minds apart. I wonder how many will never mend.

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“He’s the same old banty rooster, just on the other side of the fence”

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Combative democrat became radical right extremist. His old environment moderated his temperament, his new environment inflamed it. A mind driven by passion can flip very quickly.

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Giuliani Desperately Tried To Dodge Process Servers In Dominion Defamation Lawsuit | Talking Points Memo

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They got him! Earned a bonus I’d say.

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COVID vaccines and “sterilizing immunity”

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Even if not truly sterilizing, very likely close enough to do the job.

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Rectangular States: Utah, Colorado, Wyoming.

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I finally noticed studying Google COVID maps.

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Sickle cell gene therapy stops.

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Probably the busulfan but is bad news.

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“Since 2013, the European Union has had a program to ensure that everyone under 25 gets training or a job.”

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I did *not* know that. Why not? (BTW, the article should have described the history of work subsidies for special needs adults.)

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“case study in Facebook’s willingness to change its rules to placate America’s right wing and avoid political backlash.”

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Break their monopoly power.

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“One compelling hypothesis, related to herd immunity, is that the people least likely to follow infection control advice — or unable to follow it based on work or living situation — already have had COVID-19 and hence are immune.”

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Network spread.

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“Foxlandia — an alternate universe where empty culture-war posturing can proceed undisturbed before a hermetically sealed-off audience that is fluent in that verlan”

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Verlan is a neat word.

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“I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a line with the Capitol in the background,” General Piatt said”

Posted on February 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Private Piatt has a nice sound.

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One vaccine dose for COVID positive.

Posted on February 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Excellent news.

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First dose US vaccines safe.

Posted on February 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We don’t have 2nd dose data yet. Anecdotally young people can often have a sick day after 2nd dose. I’m curious about transient Bells Palsy.

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