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Daily Archives: February 11, 2022

“Uber is (still) a bezzle (“the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it”)”

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“This class of bug—an update opting users back into something they had opted out of—seems to be really common for Apple.”

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Olympian.

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Skeleton: “The sliding is physically brutal: Athletes endure four to five G-forces of pressure around turns and must withstand the rattling vibrations of the track.”

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “by the end of the season, for one or two months you just can’t think clearly”

Winter Olympic sports are extreme.

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“the crowd had thinned somewhat, with empty spaces where trucks had been.”

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Winding down. Premier senses this is politically bad for him; protesters are his base.

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“I can’t think of any single zoonotic virus with an equivalently broad host range,”

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No way COVID goes away. And there will be others.

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“New York Times in six days published as many cover stories about Clinton’s emails as they did about “all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.”

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. NYT journalists really disliked HRC. They thought she’d win and looked forward to years of revenge. Humans are like this.

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Does China think long-term while America thinks short-term?

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Smashes that myth. Kissinger was a doofus though.

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