Link. “Dealers will replace a fuse. In addition, Hyundai dealers will inspect the control modules and replace them if needed.”
Monthly Archives: February 2022
When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord: “They seek deals on apartment buildings, slash costs or hike rents to boost income, then unload the buildings at a higher price.”
Link. Similar in healthcare. PE is yet another modern plague.
AlphaCode: another modest step to the end of humans.
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“likely that we would not see any benefit from tailored booster shots unless we are dealing with a coronavirus variant that’s still further away in its sequence than Omicron”
Link. “Antigen sin” is misnomer. Antigenic or immune imprinting better. Great explainer. Original booster good.
Physicians are broadly suspicious of recreational cannabis.
Link. Almost all support decriminalization. Most think medical indications are zero. Most think recreational use will cause harm to at least some.
“The explosion of the Imperial Gunpowder Workshop, or the Wanggongchang, was the most horrifying public catastrophe to take place in Beijing during the final decades of the Ming Dynasty.”
Link. Destroyed much of the capitol.
“MMT is a set of political memes to push for more deficit spending”
Link. NYT needs new editors.
How to Switch From Spotify to Apple Music.
Link. SongShift has remarkably poor reviews on App Store but he lists other options.
Relentless beeping when plug iPhone into MacBook USB port.
Link. Usually this is hardware issue, maybe it is now. Might need to dig into the console log.
TN: She was told she could vote again after felony convictions. Now she’s in prison for trying.
Link. Good this is getting national coverage. Opportunity for Biden pardon if not timed.
We need non-Apple App Stores – because Apple’s store has trash like Luni Scanner App.
Link. A dark pattern turns into $5/week subscriptions to a trash app – enabled by Apple’s inattention. We need a quality App Store.
Amazon: “Enough people purchased the preservative to attempt suicide that the company’s algorithm began suggesting other products that customers frequently bought along with it to aid in such efforts.”
Link. Laissez-Faire.
“On the rare occasions when I experience glitches with iCloud, all I do is save all open documents, log out, and go for a walk”
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African Coups: “major transit point for Latin American cocaine heading to Europe and the Middle East”
Link. Desperately poor and getting warmer.
Covid-19 Commission: “Mr. Zelikow, who led the Sept. 11 panel, has laid the foundation for a commission to investigate the pandemic, with financial backing from four foundations and a paid staff that has already interviewed hundreds of public health exp
Link. Obvious need
“In 541 bubonic plague arrived in Egypt and went on to kill around a third of the population of the Byzantine empire.”
Link. COVID is just a taste.
“Amazon said it was raising the annual price of its Prime shipping club to $139, from $119.”
Link. It will continue to increase.
Hang Up and Call Back: The scammers will get you.
Link. Banks have lousy security.
Zuck: “balance of content that people see in feeds is shifted a little bit more towards stuff that isn’t coming from their friends … shifting towards more public content”
Link. Groups. So give me a friends only filter!
Facebook’s middle-age: “first quarterly decline in daily active users on record”
Link. I like middle-aged Facebook.
“Qurayshi detonated a bomb that killed himself and family members, U.S. officials told reporters.”
Link. Zawahiri is one that got away.
New Industrialism in America.
Link. I remember Andy Grove NYT OpEd on this. Maybe 2010-2022?
MacOS: Copy and Paste. Working around lack of clipboard history.
Link. Old but still good. macOS need built in clipboard history though. Windows does it well.
The Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and more
Link. “Cloud companies take the chance that they won’t get hacked, and past experience tells them they can weather the storm if they do.”
Iceland Tourist Advice.
Link. I bet this is excellent.
“Get a reminder while messaging someone”
Link. I learned several things in this short article. Worth a read.
ISS 2031: “Point Nemo is known as the “spacecraft cemetery” because so much space junk has been sent there to avoid hitting inhabited areas.”
Link. Book your cruise seat now.
Evolution puzzle: why do humans live longer than apes but also require much more exercise.
Link. Inactive humans are programmed to die quickly — presumably because they were a net resource drag until recently. So do CrossFit.
“In intensive care units like Homerton’s, which treat the most seriously ill, nearly all of those being tended are unvaccinated.”
Link. Easier to report in UK than US.
CLL cures with immunotherapy (CAR T).
Link. Sometimes works, but in surprising ways. “After the CD8 cells did their job, they remained in the blood but, unexpectedly, they turned into CD4 cells.”
“Swift is a Belgian messaging service that connects more than 11,000 financial institutions as they transfer money around the world”
Link. Putin’s loss.
How to cancel your Spotify subscription.
Link. I switched to Apple Music.
“Something has got into Putin, and he’s seeking concessions that he should know he cannot extract, with threats that he cannot enforce.”
Link. Dyer still scorns invasion but is puzzled by Putin’s posturing.
“South Korea, where the fertility rate is an astonishing 0.86 (less than one child per woman, on average), the population is going into free fall.”
Link. All of Asia to follow.
Italy: Berlusconi is back.
Link. Hell, why not?
“Johnson tells barefaced lies with great charm and apparent sincerity. He is famously lazy, doing actual work only at the last possible moment. He has at least seven children by three different mothers”
Link. UK Trump more charming.
The Trump coup: “One authorizing the Pentagon to seize the machines was made public”
Link. Remember when former Chiefs wrote that letter? They knew.