Link. Clinically meaningless diagnosis.
Monthly Archives: December 2021
“if dogs are of smaller size and not inbred, they are much healthier than larger dogs with high inbreeding”
Link. Get a mongrel born of mongrels with some wolf on the side.
“someone is running about a thousand — 10% of the total — Tor servers in an attempt to deanonymize the network”
Link. United States of Tor.
Another Galaxy without dark matter.
Link. Very diffuse. We expect to find more.
MN state government is rolling in dough.
Link. Our forecasts were way off. Not clear why but suspect is national.
“Arnold says that more than 55 Santas in his organization (which stands at about 1,900 members) have passed away from the coronavirus.”
Link. I’d have guessed 1/40 if unvaccinated. So are they really bad at vaccines?
“policy that reduces emissions is in fact discriminatory.”
Link. We expected Trump’s GOP to come out in favor of CO2.
Life360: “app is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it.”
Link. Marketed to families as a safety app.
Apple Accounts “Permanently” Blocked.
Link. If you can plead to the Baron he may undo the harms of his Knights.
Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking: some things you can do now.
Link. Actions at end.
Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking.
Link. Every few years this returns from the grave. I’m grateful.
MSP: “No city in the United States has anything approaching the number and quality of public rinks, with free skates available to borrow.”
Link. TBF only we and Anchorage have climate now and they are much smaller. Alas, our season is much diminished.
“Trump has built the first American mass political movement in the past century that is ready to fight by any means necessary, including bloodshed, for its cause.”
Link. “insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline.”
“study, focusing on sexual assault cases, estimated a wrongful conviction rate of 11.6 percent.”
Link. The best measure of a nation is its justice system.
New York State Bitcoin Boom “abandoned infrastructure, often with existing connections to the power grid, can readily be converted for Bitcoin mining”
Link. No words.
“Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a move to proceed on a law expanding background checks for gun purchases”
Link.
“Prather recommends the Web site Project N95. Masks can also be ordered directly from suppliers such as Bona Fide Masks, which sells KN95s made by Powecom. “That’s the one people swear by,” Prather says. They cost around $1 each. DemeTECH sells N95s
Link. Reuse them until they smell :-).
Noah Smith SF novel recommendations.
Link.
“90 million Americans, and the two million, are each represented by six U.S. Senators.”
Link. A brief summary of the problems of the American constitution.
AAAS did a project on repairing American democracy.
Link. I’d like a brief summary of key recommendations. Anyone?
“Apple still ships what it calls a USB-C Charge Cable—designed in the early days of USB-C—with several models of its laptops.”
Link. Despair. Great article though.
“Last quarter they got fickle about Amazon. After years of meteoric growth, its e-commerce revenue barely budged”
Link. Turns out libertarian paradise welcomes counterfeits and scams of all kinds. Eventually customers get pissed off.
Amazon funding flash mob theft.
Link. “people snatching items are paid small fees like $500 for each robbery, which then feed larger enterprises that resell the goods online” Especially Amazon marketplace.
One Omicron guest: “half of the people who attended an office Christmas party in Oslo, where only vaccinated employees were admitted, have tested positive for the coronavirus”
Link. Impressive. “everyone had tested negative for the coronavirus before the event”
Terraforming Mars in 3 Simple Steps
Link. It’s easier to create fully artificial environments.
Google Can Now Help You Find a Doctor That Takes Your Insurance
Link. “doctors near me,” – can filter by insurance plan.
“Instead, a different set of cells, which he calls progenitor cells, give rise to most blood in living animals.”
Link. Not stem cells. They just casually toss that in. Also on CHIP: “proteins suppressed the growth of other stem cells and injured the environment where the marrow cells grow”
How This All Happened: American economy 1945-2021 in 5000 words.
Link. Damn.
Inside Apple’s Chat Support.
Link. Makes Amazon warehouse look good.
“Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina and Alabama — have each sequenced and reported fewer than 3 percent of their cases”
Link. Omicron will be found first in states that sequence well.
Jim Warren obit: “West Coast Computer Faire in the 1970s”
Link. Glory Days.
“The original virus that came out of Wuhan, China, in early 2020 did not infect rodents. But as variants — Alpha, Beta, Delta — started to emerge, those viruses could infect rodents.”
Link. We are not going to eliminate a rodent borne disease.
Omicron Time.
Link. The oracle speaks. (He’s great.)
52 things I learned in 2021.
Link. So much clean fun.
“Unless the animals exercise. In that case, post-mortem exams of their tissues show, the animals’ brains typically teem with healthy, helpful microglia deep into old age”
Link. Now replicated in humans with puny (by my standards) amounts of exercise.
“Worldwide, about 56 percent of people have received at least one vaccine dose. Every continent is above 50 percent except for Africa — which is at about 10 percent.”
Link. Lack of demand mostly.
Vaccines for the unwealthy: “growing signs in parts of Africa, as well as South Asia, that skepticism or outright hostility toward the Covid vaccines may run deeper than expected”
Link. Stop beating up on wealthy country vaccine use.
Molnupiravir looks useless and can’t be given to women at risk of pregnancy.
Link. “final data showed only a 30% relative decrease, and because the numbers also changed in the control group, the absolute change was only 3% in the end.”
Reith Lectures: AI and why people should be scared.
Link. AI worries are considered silly now. Even so I consider AI our greatest existential risk over the next 80 years. It’s my favorite Fermi paradox resolution.