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Siri Can No Longer Rate Songs.

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. That sucks.

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Zambia: “Covid is not at the top of her list of health care worries. “It’s cholera season, and people have malaria, and there is H.I.V. and TB,” she said. She does not know anyone who has been diagnosed with Covid.”

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Very different mortality context.

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Renaming schizophrenia.

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Why we shouldn’t: “Scientists are reworking the clinical definition of schizophrenia … more as a syndrome than as a single disease.”

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Potter verdict:,“committing a “conscious or intentional act” with her gun that creates a substantial risk”

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I will be surprised if the first degree manslaughter charge is not reversed on appeal. I don’t understand jury’s logic.

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Moderator Sues TikTok for Failing to Protect Her Mental Health

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “suffers from horrible nightmares when she does manage to sleep over the content she’s watched”

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“Do viruses always evolve to be less lethal? Some people call this the “Avirulent Theory”. The short answer is “no.”

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Natural selection finds good-enough local minima solutions.

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“hourly workers have been securing raises, while middle-managers and white collar workers are, on average, losing significant ground”

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hourly workers don’t vote and don’t get interviewed.

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10 Best Illusions of the Year

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The changing room and ring oscillation illusions didn’t work for me. Hope that’s not a bad sign.

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“More than half a dozen experiments made public in recent days all pointed to the same conclusion: Omicron is milder than Delta and other earlier versions of the virus.”

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Vaccine for FoxGOP.

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Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm sucks and so do sales.

Posted on December 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Still can’t believe FDA approved it. EU smarter and I expect Canada to reject. Hope medicare declines to cover.

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“Republicans have used violence and the news coverage it gets to gain through pressure what they could not gain through votes.”

Posted on December 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. With support from The NY Times. “ As the recount showed the count swinging to Gore, Republican operatives stormed the station.”

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Dershowitz on BBC attempts to exonerate Andrew from Maxwell verdict.

Posted on December 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Only the Palace could screw up so badly.

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“amount of latency you get when you move your head, and if that’s too long, between you moving your head and the sound changing or remaining static, it will make you feel quite ill”

Posted on December 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sound, not video. Great interview. Also, Bluetooth is still bad.

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“Peak in four weeks and precipitous decline in another two.”

Posted on December 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Few deaths, but we think many immune already. They abandoned quarantine but did isolate.

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Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts.

Posted on December 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Ground ambulances were left out of the recent legislation because legislators determined they would need a different regulatory approach.” Legitimately bipartisan.

Don’t sign forms agreeing to pay extra.

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How to turn off in-app review requests on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Posted on December 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Swipe down again tap the toggle off next to In-App Ratings and Reviews”. App Store.

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“Revert to the old keyboard auto-correct that didn’t replace correctly spelled words with typos and gibberish.”

Posted on December 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. iOS 16 wishes. Also, contact groups — as with past 10 releases

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“one of his final comments to fans being that he planned to seek asylum abroad to avoid getting vaccinated.”

Posted on December 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Commitment.

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“troops on horseback hunted down and slaughtered all the Lakotas they could find: about 250 men, women, and children.”

Posted on December 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The story of the Wounded Knee massacre. It could have been easily avoided.

Among other things — why police and soldiers need training, leadership, and selective hiring.

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NYT reviews a year of exercise studies.

Posted on December 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. You can put-eat almost any exercise program, but exercise is key to maintaining diet induced weight loss.

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Britain: Self-isolation cut from 10 days to seven with negative tests.

Posted on December 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They have lots of free tests so they can have better guidance.

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“Even here in the U.S., where we’re free to leave whatever reviews we want on Amazon for Xi’s book, it’s rated 4.7/5 after nearly 2,000 reviews. Seriously, go look.”

Posted on December 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A must see Xi book.

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“compared with the Delta variant, Omicron appears to be causing milder illness in children,”

Posted on December 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Just loads of em get infected. “the rate of pediatric Covid admissions in much of the country was still below the peak of what is typically seen with the seasonal flu, “

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Workaround for iOS 15 Autocorrect Turning ‘20’ Into ‘2.0’

Posted on December 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Installed Apps with numbers in name mess with iOS autocorrect.

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American prenatal sickle cell screening is a sociopolitical mess.

Posted on December 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Should have compared to Tay Sachs screening. Historically these programs have come out of a minority community.

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Importing blog archive (bar) files.

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We desperately need this.

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“when they share misinformation, it’s generally not because they are making a sincere mistake. It’s because they want to stick it to the people they hate, whether or not the actual complaint is true.”

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sounds right. Explains why better information and corrections have limited value.

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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”

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This oversimplifies the too complex actual CDC guidance. They need to simplify it quickly.

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Booster protection against symptoms wanes after 10w.

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Omicron parties at week 6? Sigh. Probably not a good idea.

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Dr Oz is an idiot front man for his show’s cynical producers.

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

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.”

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“the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempted many real estate deals from the new regulations.”

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. After 9/11 American money laundering shifted to real estate. Who drove that exemption?

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CoreServices apps: the rest.

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Last of a series. I miss the days when such tips and reminders were plentiful. Only a few sources now.

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“Medicaid work requirements are all but dead in all those states.”

Posted on December 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Few things annoy me as much as claims that a Dem win didn’t matter.

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“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.”

Posted on December 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The false-grip is hard.

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“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”

Posted on December 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Economics of Friedrich List, the alternative to Smith. By Fallows.

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All weather (but especially winter) cycling clothing guide (Wheel and Sprocket, with comments)

Posted on December 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They missed “bar mitts” and neck painters, but it’s a pretty good guide. (Road probably but singletrack not that different.)

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Blog – Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews.

Posted on December 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Keep the reviews, change the listed product.

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Posted on December 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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The Bootleg Video Vans of the Soviet Union.

Posted on December 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wonderful.

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“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”

Posted on December 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Rand was sooooo weird.

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NYT profiles the 15% never-vaxx.

Posted on December 25, 2021 by jgordon

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.

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“Automattic … a $7.5 billion company, one of the biggest private companies in the industry.”

Posted on December 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Private!

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“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.”

Posted on December 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A sickness at The NY Times.

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“there is no federal regulation to stop Tesla — or the many other autonomous vehicle companies — from using public streets as a laboratory”

Posted on December 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Unlike Medicines.

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“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.”

Posted on December 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not incompetent or subversive.

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“40% of respondents reluctant to get the shots said they would be more likely to do so if airlines required vaccination.”

Posted on December 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Do it.

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Is Joan Didion in Denial About Her Daughter’s Alcoholism?

Posted on December 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wondered when I read Didion obits. Dying at 39 of acute pancreatitis has a very high prior probability of massive alcohol abuse.

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“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”

Posted on December 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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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.”

Posted on December 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Expires end 2022 unless BBB.

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“we detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in multiple anatomic sites, including regions throughout the brain, for up to 230 days following symptom onset”

Posted on December 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Presumably other coronaviruses do this too.

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