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“the Republican National Committee (RNC) is using party funds to pay some of former president Donald Trump’s legal bills”

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I admire his ability to torment the RNC.

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Civilization, complexity and the limits of human cognition – another attempt at explaining the 21st century

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Maybe this is as good as it gets?

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Apple Mac App Store: “Unable to download item. Please try again later”: The problem may be that you are not the purchaser.

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Use Accounts feature in App Store to switch to Family Sharing owner’s account.

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“His octogenarian grandparents recovered from their bout with COVID-19 in January without a problem. He’ll get around to getting the vaccine. Eventually. Maybe after this trip.”

Posted on November 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He is alive and warning people not to be stupid.

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“Moderna is already studying two multi-valent booster candidates in the clinic that were designed to anticipate mutations such as those that have emerged in the Omicron variant.”

Posted on November 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Science.

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Wisconsin killer – why out on bail?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The key comment (and failure): “If prosecutors believed Brooks was dangerous, she argued, they should have requested a pretrial detention hearing to present that case and see whether the court agrees.” The low bail is a red herring.

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A power lifter’s review of CrossFit.

Posted on November 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Pretty fair really! I think injury risk varies by coach and facility though. (I’m a fan)

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“I have been on ivermectin for 16 months, my wife and I,” Dr. Bruce Boros declared at the end of the meeting at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala… Two days later, the 71-year-old cardiologist fell ill with COVID-19″

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dementia.

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“For all practical purposes, stealing a bike is risk-free crime.”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Even though revenue is mediocre still a worthwhile business for a petty criminal. Beyond that bikes are stolen by miserable people who resent anyone’s joy.

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“Sjoquist and his wife often travel with their cross-country skis and fat bikes, alternating between the two depending on the snow conditions.”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I mourn the end of Nordic skiing, but my fat bike is a consolation. More expensive though.

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“organized bike-theft ring that raided dozens of shops on the Front Range and then sold the stolen bikes, perhaps in Mexico.”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. $8k here, I wonder how much they sell for.

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“As of Nov. 22, the rate of new Covid cases in Erie County was 16 times higher than in Ontario’s Niagara Region”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Canadians reluctant to visit Buffalo.

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Huge investments in medicine, science, and infrastructure.

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Because Biden won.

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NYT project finds you a place to live.

Posted on November 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I applied my filters and it said my best option was St Paul MN. Where I have lived since 1994.

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Covid-19 Delta Linked to Four Times Higher Risk of Stillbirth.

Posted on November 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I wonder what other coronaviruses do in pregnancy.

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GoDaddy Hack: “customers’ WordPress administrator passwords”

Posted on November 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The initial generated provisioning passwords. I guess it’s possible to not change them or to change but reuse?

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“Prosecutors agreed to release Mr. Brooks on Nov. 11 for a fraction of the $10,000 bail they initially requested.”

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We make mistakes in medicine too — but I wonder if the burden on prosecutors is even greater.

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xkcd: Bayes’ Theorem

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mandatory introduction to every Bayes lecture forever.

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GOP authoritarianism is permanent.

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I suspect less than 40% of Americans are strongly committed to democracy.

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“the population can be divided into networks of quasi-homogeneous mixing populations that are internally well-connected but only loosely connected to each other, the effective reproduction number can undergo large fluctuations even in the absence of beh

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Simulations have disappointed.

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“In 2017, after more than a decade of work, Laporta published his magnum opus — the electron’s magnetic moment to 1,100 digits of precision.“

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Love this description of hard core mathematical physics.

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“participants who were smokers but had taken naltrexone were less likely to consume high-fat, high-calorie foods than smokers who had been given the placebo.”

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Naltrexone is used now in some people with severe obesity.

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DeLong’s latest blog home is on substack

Posted on November 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. At least it has an RSS feed. Because of the way sub stack works I can’t tell how old it is, maybe 2021?

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Vials labeled ‘Smallpox’ contained vaccinia.

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This really should have gotten more coverage.

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“Fox employees often speak of this in terms of “respecting the audience.”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I have wondered how they get up in the morning. Also, Tucker Carlson ambitions are limitless.

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Identified serial killings are dramatically down in US.

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lots of plausible explanations.

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Right-to-Repair: don’t trust Apple.

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I hadn’t read previously how Apple screwed participants in their small vendor program.

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Africa disintegrates.

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Too many languages and cultures.

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“COP26, while not yielding much in the way of enforceable commitments to cut emissions, has actually turned out to be one of the more productive climate summits.”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Coal appears.

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EVs in winter: “warming the bus during its runs on those cold days drained a little over half of the battery’s charge, whereas driving the bus used a bit more than 40%.”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“The maximum root pressure measured in some plants can raise water only to 6.87 meters, and the tallest trees are over 100 meters tall.”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Transpirational supposedly but not fully understood.

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“life will go on as usual for Wadena County residents, even as many of them get sick or die.”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Most people don’t understand how dumb most people are.

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“biggest six-month increase since the department began recording fatal crash data since 1975”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t give car vs ped vs bike numbers. Some is shift from transit to car but is surprising.

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APFS based Time Machine has a problem with hard drives.

Posted on November 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. More fragile backup and slower performance.

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Belarus: [Putin] … “has yanked on the Belarusian strongman’s chain very hard. The crisis is effectively over, although Lukashenko may be allowed a face-saving ‘decent interval’ before he calls it off.”

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Where will refugees end up?

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“Which hand do you think controls the front brake on a moto? The right hand! This is why you hear people refer to reversed brakes as “moto-style.””

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m persuaded. Current arrangement is legacy of old geometries where front brakes promoted headers.

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Roundabouts: climate and cars.

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The article suggests they are bad for bikes and pedestrians unless special accommodations are made.

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The end of file system defragmentation.

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. SSDs and APFS are marvels.

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Managing beavers: “easily, easily trapped and easily caught by wolves, so, no, they’re not exactly the brightest animal on the street.”

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The beaver-deceiver is cool. Beaver population is growing very quickly.

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“five biggest Chinese mining companies in Congo had lines of credit from state-backed banks that totaled $124 billion”

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. While Trump focused on …. Coal. The safety story is surprising.

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Gordon’s Tech: How to mitigate SMS spam in iOS 15: filter unknown AND disable notifications for unknown senders

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If this made the news I missed it.

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“mild peripheral neuropathy, a condition defined by nerve damage, pain and stiffening in the feet. Despite extensive testing, the team found no cause for that condition.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is common but doesn’t get enough medical attention. Biden is one fit almost-80 dude.

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Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: “for legal scholars, it was not a surprise”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. WTF wasn’t it universal knowledge that anyone who actually knew WI law expected an acquittal? Because journalists won’t spike a hot story.

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“unicode (outside of string literals) in programming languages was a mistake”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Undo this.

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Proteins Aging: “perhaps the adoption of asparagine as a canonical amino acid might have been a mistake”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. My cataracts are developing nicely.

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Alzheimer’s Vaccines: “these clinical trials, long shots though they are, are appropriate”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A relatively positive take by a trusted source.

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“the first two weeks of November, those two ports cleared about a third of the containers sitting on their docks.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If BBB passes this could be an impressive Biden finish. As they say, “Go Brandon!”

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Disk Utility still can’t check and repair APFS volumes and containers.

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There are workarounds. Sigh.

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Returning faulty Apple product via a doorstep replacement service.

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “if the new keyboard was delivered by UPS, I could ask them to wait on the doorstep” while swap old and new.

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“At the end of each year, I’ll export the current year’s messages to EagleFiler and have a mostly-empty Mail app to work with.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m slowly moving in this direction. Don’t trust the way Mail manages archives. Would like less Google dependency.

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