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“proposed chartering an Industrial Finance Corporation, a bank owned by the U.S. government that would fill the “manufacturing gap” and finance high-tech production nationwide.”

Posted on August 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A Bill.

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Nebraska recruiting particularly dim nurses.

Posted on August 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Beyond the COVID risks, they are selecting for bad nurses.

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“The Sinai land bridge was crossable several times, as early as 246,000 years ago, and the southern strait had even more favorable windows, including the period 65,000 years ago.”

Posted on August 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Humans first left Africa long ago.

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The phenotypes of cognition don’t line up with the fictional domains of the brain.

Posted on August 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need new names for brain functional domains.

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“Any academic department is a rats nest of perceived grievances, real grievances, ancient feuds, entitled snobs and desperate strivers.”

Posted on August 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Academia has longer term forced relationships than other disciplines.

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“left 1Password for iCloud Keychain over two years ago”.

Posted on August 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I also want to exit 1PW.

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“QuickTime Player name the file with .mov but use the H.264 format, so you can just rename the file with .mp4”

Posted on August 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lots of heads hit tabletop.

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Coase’s revenge: twilight of the gig economy.

Posted on August 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “traditional companies still have a good reason to exist”

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“The city had been expecting the protests in the recent days but declined to actively intervene, citing among its reasons a lack of resources.”

Posted on August 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. When police go on strike.

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What is the average mile time of the GENERAL population for a 30 year old male?

Posted on August 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A famous example of bad estimations.

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“Her brother-in-law gave her a vicious kick”

Posted on August 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What percent of Afghans are pro-Taliban?

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“anyone ready to go beyond Mojave should now be preparing for Monterey, not Catalina or Big Sur”

Posted on August 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I have been seen. Powerful vote for Monterey. I have grown fond of Mojave …

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“OCR in Live Text is better than any that I’ve used.”

Posted on August 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Monterey unusually appealing.

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“Tesla has systematically pursued competitive advantage by sacrificing safety with its design and deployment of Autopilot and Full-Self Driving.”

Posted on August 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Worked under GOP rule.

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“they had ample time to prepare for a Taliban takeover of the country — it might even be a couple of years until the group was in position to regain power”

Posted on August 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’d love to read a solid review of why our analysts were so wrong. I suspect we have huge problems in our military and intelligence community.

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“the drive to keep the door open for foreign money is reining in Taliban extremism”

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dispense bits of money so long as the refugee flow continues.

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Facebook “Widely Shared Content” report is a poke in the eye.

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It is true, however, that humanity is vacuous.

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Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave – use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog.

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Chrome has been going downhill for a while.

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Safari on US Bank: “our system is not cooperating”

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Weird bug since works on a different user account but cache clear failed. For now the workaround is Chrome.

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Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave – use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m done with Chrome. Such an annoying product.

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“researchers planted a single Roundup-resistant Palmer amaranth plant in each of four fields of genetically modified cotton. In three years, the weeds choked out the cotton, and the crop failed.”

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The good news is Amaranth seeds are edible.

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“the data he expects to be released soon is from studies of two doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, rather than an mRNA booster.”

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We don’t understand the immune system well enough to mix and match if we have actual data at hand.

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Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers are not very useful.

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sometimes hurt, sometimes help, mostly not worth the bother.

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When Sea Snakes Attack “it’s just a lovesick boy looking for a girlfriend and making a rather foolish mistake,”

Posted on August 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hold still and let the fanged lethal monster lick you.

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Exercise for Olds: year 63 (CrossFit and so on).

Posted on August 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Personal status. Meeting CDC activity guidelines I think.

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Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay.

Posted on August 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “An employee leaving San Francisco for London can expect a 20% pay cut.”

Now do telework.

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“the brain, which is smaller than a rice grain, remained unnoticed”

Posted on August 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 310 million year fossil

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“The doctrine I taught was a) Western armies always lose guerilla wars in the ‘Third World’, and b) it never really matters.”

Posted on August 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He means “matters” in a peculiar geopolitical sense sense.

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“risk of developing breast cancer was 40 percent to 60 percent greater among women with the PALB2 mutation”

Posted on August 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. By comparison smoking increases lung cancer risk roughly 2000%. The 50% increase with PALB2 is not as large as I would have guessed.

The base rate of breast cancer is much higher than non-smoker lung cancer risk however.

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Health inequality: “The disparity persists even when adjusted for factors like age and income“

Posted on August 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What is the maternal mortality disparity for college educated? I want a deeper dive.

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Working on Internet Explorer 3 and Google Chrome

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. One of these is much better.

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“21 percent of Republicans who favored some level of effort to overcome racial bias.”

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Why are the 21% still Republicans?

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Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Crackpottery.

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. How to ID crackpot: “detailed mechanistic explanation of how azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine work together as an effective therapy against the coronavirus”

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Tesla’s Autopilot finally investigated.

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “G.M.’s system uses GPS positioning to restrict its use to major highways that do not have oncoming or cross traffic, intersections, pedestrians or cyclists.”

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Saturn’s core: “makes up 60 percent of the planet’s radius”

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is very Caltech.

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The Afghanistan occupation and the Japan occupation.

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I agree.

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“Among vaccinated adults, “the symptoms we are seeing now are much more commonly identified with the common cold”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. DO NOT GO TO WORK WITH A COLD.

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GOP shifts from CO2 denialism to CO2 nihilism.

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The worst of humanity.

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“While they failed to do so in an attempted 1934 coup, Fronczak explains, street fighters learned about the contours of fascism once their power as a violent street force was established.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Fascism is always with us.

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“In neighboring Minneapolis, the police department explicitly banned “warrior” training.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Grossman has been a one man disaster.

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“Even with health officials saying the hospital system could collapse in the coming days, Gov. Tate Reeves (R) reiterated Wednesday that the state would not have a mask mandate.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Don’t live in Mississippi.

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“an initial deck collapse that extended beyond those key columns, where the deck joined the building’s facade, could have overloaded the columns and caused them to buckle”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Changes to construction designs likely. Also, civil engineering is hard and scary.

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“Buying those stablecoins would be tantamount to having money on deposit directly at the Fed.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The end of anarchy.

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“McConnell is the greatest traitor to this country since Robert E. Lee.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. McConnell is weak, American fascism is strong.

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MN: “Children may be exempt if they have a notarized statement noting a parent or guardian’s “conscientiously held belief” against the child’s vaccination.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. That’s for measles! We will not get a child vaccine mandate for COVID.

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“it seems equally unlikely that an increasingly urbanizing, multicultural nation will continue to accept being governed by an ever-smaller white, rural minority.”

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I wonder how it breaks.

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How the Pandemic Ends.

Posted on August 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. My only change would have been to focus on relatively comfortable masks that also protect wearer and reduce innoculum. They exist now.

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What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage.

Posted on August 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Originally 2006. Positive reinforcement conditioning for spouses. Handy reference.

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Mark Sertich: Oldest hockey player, died 2020 age 99.

Posted on August 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “When I’ve got an injury, I lay it back a little bit, but I like to get into the action. I believe that my immune system should be able to take care of it.” I’m no Sertich, but I do kind of work my injuries the same way.

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Exporting (iCloud) Keychain and Safari credentials to a CSV file

Posted on August 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Done by a senior Apple dev

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