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“workers who had received all recommended vaccine doses, including boosters, do not need to quarantine at home following high-risk exposures”
Link. This oversimplifies the too complex actual CDC guidance. They need to simplify it quickly.
Booster protection against symptoms wanes after 10w.
Link. Omicron parties at week 6? Sigh. Probably not a good idea.
Dr Oz is an idiot front man for his show’s cynical producers.
Link. “The standard advice for many ailments covered on the show — obesity, sluggishness, back pain — was exercise, the researchers said. But there was a quota on how often exercise could be mentioned.”
“the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempted many real estate deals from the new regulations.”
Link. After 9/11 American money laundering shifted to real estate. Who drove that exemption?
CoreServices apps: the rest.
Link. Last of a series. I miss the days when such tips and reminders were plentiful. Only a few sources now.
“Medicaid work requirements are all but dead in all those states.”
Link. Few things annoy me as much as claims that a Dem win didn’t matter.
“Once you can easily perform 5 unbroken, false-grip ring pull-ups and 5 unbroken ring dips (externally rotating the thumbs at the top of each dip), you should be strong enough to do a muscle-up.”
Link. The false-grip is hard.
“In the long run, List argued, a society’s well-being and its overall wealth are determined not by what the society can buy but by what it can make”
Link. Economics of Friedrich List, the alternative to Smith. By Fallows.
All weather (but especially winter) cycling clothing guide (Wheel and Sprocket, with comments)
Link. They missed “bar mitts” and neck painters, but it’s a pretty good guide. (Road probably but singletrack not that different.)
Blog – Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews.
Link. Keep the reviews, change the listed product.
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The Bootleg Video Vans of the Soviet Union.
Link. Wonderful.
“as Ayn Rand was working out her philosophy, she became enthralled by a real-life American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker”
Link. Rand was sooooo weird.
NYT profiles the 15% never-vaxx.
Link. By now many, if not most, are by nature or immune experience effectively immune. We should stop worrying about them outside of healthcare providers.
“Automattic … a $7.5 billion company, one of the biggest private companies in the industry.”
Link. Private!
“the “serious” media: placing vastly more stress on the threat of inflation, which indeed is getting worse, than on the evil of unemployment, which is getting much better.”
Link. A sickness at The NY Times.
“there is no federal regulation to stop Tesla — or the many other autonomous vehicle companies — from using public streets as a laboratory”
Link. Unlike Medicines.
“idea that Pentagon leaders were concerned about Trump trying to use the military to keep him in office lines up with other things we know about that period.”
Link. Not incompetent or subversive.
“40% of respondents reluctant to get the shots said they would be more likely to do so if airlines required vaccination.”
Link. Do it.
Is Joan Didion in Denial About Her Daughter’s Alcoholism?
Link. Wondered when I read Didion obits. Dying at 39 of acute pancreatitis has a very high prior probability of massive alcohol abuse.
“a massive Late Bronze Age movement displaced around half the ancestry of England and Wales and, possibly solving another longstanding riddle about British history, may have brought early Celtic languages to the island from Europe”
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“A stimulus bill passed by Congress in March made many more Americans eligible for financial assistance in buying Obamacare plans. For most people with low incomes, comprehensive coverage is currently available for no premium.”
Link. Expires end 2022 unless BBB.
“we detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in multiple anatomic sites, including regions throughout the brain, for up to 230 days following symptom onset”
Link. Presumably other coronaviruses do this too.
Conference of whackos gets COVID symptoms, decides must be anthrax.
Link. Alt theory “boosted by other election fraud conspiracists like former New Mexico State University professor David Clements, and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne.”
“If industrialization is a process of learning to walk before you learn to run, … Jamaica was born with a fancy aluminum wheelchair.”
Link. Great discussion on economic development.
“Manchin made specific claims about its climate provisions. None hold up under scrutiny, but they appear to reflect arguments coming from the industry.”
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MN surplus more than $7.7 billion.
Link. $8.98 billion. So much we got rid of several gimmicks.
“The government moved to conserve sotrovimab when early analysis of omicron’s mutations suggested the drug might hold up against the variant”
Link. All we got for monoclonal rx now.
“the harmonized measures used by the OECD put us at 21.2% (a fifth of all our kids!) living in poverty in 2018, compared to 12.4% in the UK, 11.8% in Canada, and just 8.3% in Ireland”
Link. Manchin opposes.
CDC crisis strategies: “as a last resort consider allowing HCP with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who are well enough and willing to work but have not met all Return to Work Criteria to work.”
Link. It’s way down list but good chance we get there in next 2-3 weeks.
“Biden specifically instructed them to add that if Manchin stood by his comments, he had violated his word to the President.”
Link. Manchin is without honor.
Destination Cross country resort-class trails within five hours of Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP) – 2010
Link. Of course I forgot I wrote this, but it’s still a great reference. Blogs were great. The young don’t know what they are missing.
CDC: “removing references to face coverings and suggestions to suspend choirs, for example, in order to avoid offending faith communities”
Link. In this one case I’m oddly sympathetic to the Trump administration. American religions tend towards rage and craziness.
“all the miscellaneous felonies — burglaries, robberies, assaults, you name it. None of them have gone to trial since March of 2020”
Link. Carjackings.
“if you provide your iPhone’s passcode to a tech, they also get your keychain if you have iCloud Keychain turned on”
Link. Same problem on Mac. Needs fix urgently.
Apple Music kind of sucks.
Link. For a time iTunes and iPod were brilliant.
FORCEDENTRY “Rather than completely encoding the entire difference in one go, it can be done in steps, with each iteration using a logical operator (one of AND, OR, XOR or XNOR) to set, clear or flip bits.”
Link. Hello Turing.
“In just the second round, the $1,000 iPhone 13 Pro was beaten by Google’s $399 Pixel 5a.”
Link. Apple stayed too long with 12mpix
Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
Link. A classic. Shared by one who knows.
“Apple temporarily closed its stores in Miami, Maryland, and Ottawa as a response to the recent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.”
Link. The Ottawa closure impacted me when I was buying a phone for my sister.
Smartphones ‘a tax on the poor’.
Link. Absolutely. Also on cognitively limited, but they are invariably also poor (by necessity if receiving SSDI).
A huge issue widely ignored.
“JBIG2 doesn’t have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and
Link. Turing machines are everywhere.
“Based on our analysis, the sensitivity and specificity of our tests, including our BinaxNOW rapid antigen tests, are not impacted by the Delta variant.”
Link. Hopeful news.
Stop carriers from selling your data. Maybe.
Link. AT&T: https://bit.ly/3q7LnwC
I could disable most for my family but their big revenue earner showed error message when I tried to disable. I’m sure they will fix that ASAP.
“Speed cameras are a part of the reason Europe’s roads are now much safer than America’s; a 2010 literature review found crashes resulting in death or serious injury fell between 17 and 58 percent where cameras were installed.”
Link. Quebec has them.
“U.S. hospitals almost always run close to the edge of capacity.”
Link. “Five people died that day and that’s what saved us”
Medicine has a supply chain/just-in-time hyper-efficiency problem. We are stressed in good times and in bad times we break.
“The Cleveland Clinic, HCA Healthcare and Intermountain Healthcare, among others, have said they are no longer requiring employees to be vaccinated”
Link. “About 40 percent of the nation’s hospitals mandated vaccinations”.
A handy guide to quality institutions.
“Carlson Travel expects to lose $15 million on revenue of $701 million next year, a substantial downturn from 2019, when Carlson Travel earned $239 million on $1.5 billion in revenue, court records show.”
Link. World remade.
Family sharing screen time bug: a fix for ghost apps
Link. Remove from family then restore. First screen time bug I’ve ever fixed. (There are so many.)