Link. I’m having trouble with backup to a CCC generated disk image.
Daily Archives: April 15, 2022
“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals.”
Link. Why it’s not banned.
Stabyl Browser for iPad: counteract tremor.
Link. Brilliant.
Doctorow does billionaire taxes.
Link. The GOP delivered.
“March 23 theft of roughly $625 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Ronin blockchain”
Link. North Korea. I think stealing this from a US Bank might get more attention.
“authors found that substitution of as few as five amino acids can lead the program to predict very different three-dimensional structures, which is the equivalent of an image-recognition declaring that a picture of Richard Nixon is in fact a begonia”
Link. Protein folding prediction.
“25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes, a true tax rate of 3.4%.”
Link. Worth repeating.
“Swan tries to get McConnell to say whether there is anything Donald Trump could do or say that would lead McConnell not to support him. The answer Swan eventually got was: No, there is no such line.”
Link. Evil.
“Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached an all-time best 2.5 percent in March”
Link. Damn. That’s low.
No-knock raids: long WaPo review.
Link. Judicial review doesn’t work. Would need a lot more money/time/resources to be effective. Mostly is about preventing powdered drug flushing.
“used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.”
Link. A web site of names and identifying information would be less cruel.