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“Chinese researchers told them they didn’t have enough properly trained technicians to safely operate their BSL-4 lab.”

Posted on March 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If it were found to be a lab escape nobody would be surprised.

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Mac firmware problems: “the iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 – the dreaded iMac17,1.”

Posted on March 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple’s lemons come up every few years but often take a while to be recognized.

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“growing intellectual shift toward the idea of direct cash benefits as the optimal form of government intervention in the economy.”

Posted on March 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Rather than setting a higher minimum wage.

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China National Digital Currency

Posted on March 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Chinese government more power to monitor finance flows because a digital currency system can record every transaction.” Buries the lede.

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“Heidelberg is buying a fleet of hydrogen-powered buses and designing neighborhoods to discourage all vehicles and encourage walking”

Posted on March 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The future.

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“Once Trump starts squawking, domestic extremists will start walking to the targets he designates in speeches and social media feeds.”

Posted on March 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Trump’s malevolence does help FBI know next targets.

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COVID Tracking Project: “our data compilation will come to an end on Sunday, March 7,”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Majestic work. We have a functioning governmemt now, so time to rest.

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Long term care staff turnover: “average annual rate was 128 percent, with some facilities experiencing turnover that exceeded 300 percent.”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. My children know to place me in a 1 star facility with 300% turnover located by a cliff.

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After full approval health care employers can mandate immunization.

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. VA probably will.

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“Hindustan Syringes makes its needles from stainless steel strips imported from Japan. The strips are curled into cylinders and welded at the seam”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The supply, design, manufacturing, distribution wonderously global.

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Market heat: “second highest since our data began in 1881.”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. But in other ways, not so much. New world.

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“generous expansion of tax credits for low-income Americans with children, would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Elections matter. So does Manchin.

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“companies and organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange program should assume that they had been hacked sometime between Feb. 26 and March 3”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Always assume China owns you.

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Why is my Mac’s Gatekeeper data so out of date?

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “data is apparently no longer used by macOS”. Be nice if Apple picked up its trash.

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“Exercise equipment shipped by container from Asia to North America more than doubled between September and November”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The containers themselves are in short supply. China rules the world.

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“they don’t really care, they’re just going to do what’s right for their business,”

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. CEOs ready to exterminate workforce post-COVID. But they always were. I don’t get what is new here.

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“intermingling of religious faith, conspiratorial thinking, and misguided nationalism on display at the Capitol offered perhaps the most unequivocal evidence yet of the American church’s role in bringing the country to this dangerous moment.”

Posted on March 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Russian orthodox church sustained Putin.

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The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease – ScienceDirect

Posted on March 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. On my reading list. Zimmer recommended.

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“Democrats gained somewhere between half a percent to one percent among non-college whites and roughly 7 percent among white college graduates”

Posted on March 3, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 7%! Summer riots/defund turned Hispanic voters to GOP.

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“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,” she added, “because once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”

Posted on March 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Woman of the hour.

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The weird story of DNP – a drug that reduces weight by mucking up mitochondria

Posted on March 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Methamphetamine is definitely safer.

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“you missed a payment on your Apple Card” to “we’re locking you out of your Apple ID”.

Posted on March 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I really don’t like Apple.

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“the proper debate should be about the country and the preservation of the democratic order”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Conservative intellectuals find a noble cause.

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“After getting two strikes, the user’s account will be blocked for 12 hours. With three strikes, the account will be blocked for another 12 hours. Four strikes results in a seven-day lockout, while five strikes results in permanent suspension from Twi

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Twitter.

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“Recruit America’s best high-altitude climbers to place a nuclear powered observation device atop the world’s greatest mountain range”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What similarly insane schemes is CIA pursuing today?

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“before long the ecumenicism was gone and the Moral Majority was largely displaced by the Christian Coalition.”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Excellent retrospective from Reagan era CPAC chair. How the GOP collapsed into Trumpism.

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“APFS does appear to have achieved its objective of eliminating the routine accumulation of file system errors to which HFS+ was prone. In doing so, it has also removed any need for periodic maintenance.”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“The fate of humanity in the 21st century and beyond hinges on whether African countries can figure out the riddle of industrialization.”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Or India’s services-first model? It depend most of all on whether humans are still important for manufacturing.

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North Dakota: “Two counties in the state have enacted drastic restrictions on new wind projects in an attempt to save coal mining jobs”

Posted on February 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Money flows to different people.

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Minimum Big Sur M1 update is now 3.1 GB.

Posted on February 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. All the updates for all the devices in a 5 person household contibutes to blowing a 1 TB cable data cap. This is bad.

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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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