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Daily Archives: July 11, 2021

Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: “… could not be changed because of a server error”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I don’t think this is a common bug, but it hurts nonetheless.

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The end of the Victoria’s Secret Angels.

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A cultural artifact out of time. I suspect it will be back eventually.

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mRNA 12-17: “70 myocarditis cases, but would prevent … 215 hospitalizations”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. To me that is not a great therapeutic index. Curious to see if there will be full approval.

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“Germany’s vaccine commission recommended in April that anyone under 60 who had received a first shot of AstraZeneca should follow it up with either Pfizer or Moderna.”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Our guys got J&J, I’d like a mRNA for them.

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“With 2.7 percent of the world’s population, Brazil has suffered 13 percent of the Covid-19 fatalities”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Elect an idiot and die.

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Iran: “U.S.- and British-made vaccines banned by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Vote for an idiot, get idiocracy.

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M1 Airs are prone to Panics (spontaneous restart with full data loss).

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s not just our machine – which we named “Crashy”! (To be fair things are much better since last macOS update.) I wonder if it’s a hardware issue.

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“HCoV-HKU1, crossed the species barrier in the 1950s. The oldest, called HCoV-NL63, may date back as far as 820 years.”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The history of coronavirus pandemics.

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“Telefónica handled a 45 percent jump in data through its network with no increase in energy use. Cogent’s electricity use fell 21 percent even as data traffic increased 38 percent.”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We do more computing, but we are even more efficient. Bitcoin remains a concern.

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Breathalyzer for COVID: “breath samples from people with Covid-19 had higher levels of aldehydes”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’d be surprised if these succeed.

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Economics: On police chases and library fines.

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Technology can reduce the externalities.

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CIA “… reviewed the test flights of the U-2 reconnaissance planes and then A-12 aircraft (the predecessor of the iconic SR-71 Blackbird) in the 1960s and found that roughly half of U.F.O. sightings were attributable to those top-secret programs,”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Air Force invented “natural phenomena” to cover up.

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Prostate cancer Rx: “combines a compound that targets a protein on the surface of prostate cancer cells, called prostate-specific membrane antigen, or P.S.M.A., with a radioactive particle that attacks the cells”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Median 4 extra months of life, but these patients were at the very end.

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“44 percent of people ages 20 to 29 losing money to fraud, more than double the 20 percent of people ages 70 to 79.”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dementia mostly bites after 85, but the 44% is higher than I’d have guessed. Different scams for young.

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