Link. We’ve used it 10 months with Zwift and iPad. Good purchase.
Daily Archives: August 7, 2021
“American gunmakers knowingly facilitate the sale of arms to criminal groups in Mexico by marketing their wares in ways that appeal to drug traffickers and refusing to put responsible restrictions on sales.”
Link. The “widow maker” is marketed to women with abusive husbands.
“incidence of myocarditis in boys ages 12 to 17 who had Covid-19 was 876 per million; in girls of the same age group with Covid-19, the incidence was 213 cases per million”
Link. 10/million in older. COVID thought much higher rate.
Metabolic syndrome and cognitive disability – 300 calories a day with Zwift and a Schwinn IC-4
Link. Nine months of 300 cal/day. Not enough to lose weight, but has stopped the gain.
“Cointool. After a few minutes of tweaking, and about $300 in fees, I pressed a button. Instantly, 21 million coins were minted. I christened them Idiot Coins.”
Link. Can’t buy Fentanyl.
Rent subsidies: “$3 billion out of $46 billion had been deployed by the states and cities that got the money.”
Link. Huge fraud potential meets a bureaucratic system designed to deny benefits.
“if the F.D.A. soon grants full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, as expected, a change to its emergency authorization might be unnecessary. Physicians would then be free to simply prescribe an additional shot to immunocompromised patients.”
Link. I think to any patient but no insurance coverage for immunocompetent.
“if his company instituted a vaccine mandate, he would likely comply.”
Link. Shame, blame, apply pressure. It works.
“President Abraham Lincoln knew he must land a crushing blow on the South or lose the upcoming presidential election.”
Link. We forget how close the south came to a successful partition with the likely preservation of chattel slavery into the 20th century.
“macOS currently has built-in support for around 15 different file systems”
Link. APFS really is good work.
“These miracle vaccines are incredibly complex products that would have been hard to develop and produce in any one country, even one as large as the United States. A global market made it possible to deliver all the specialized inputs that are saving tho
Link. Krugman gets to (justly) highlight his primary contribution to economic theory.
“2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts gutted the provision of the law requiring that states with histories of voter discrimination get approval from the Department of Justice before they changed their v
Link. Roberts’ obituaries will emphasize that decision.
“Buy Now, Pay Later” retail loans – who pays?
Link. “Klarna charges vendors “up to” 5.99 percent of each transaction.” It’s less of a scam overall than I’d have guessed. Basically everyone pays a few percent more to cover defaults of BNPL users.
“The majority of children who contract covid-19 will be asymptomatic or have mild disease. But I contrast this with the reality of being a clinician at the bedside…”
Link. A good lay review of pediatric COVID. Vaccinate 12+ now. With such a contagious disease I wonder how much masking will actually reduce infection.