Follow up: Jet passenger killed by turbulence?
March 3, 2023 After the March 3d, 2023 incident, there was much publicity about a former government official killed “by turbulence” while her family flew on a private jet flight.…
Business: Remote work is so last year
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1638677318104408064
Demographics: North Carolina dropping 4-year degree requirement for state jobs
Bearing the modest title “Recognizing the Value of Experience in State Government Hiring,” Executive Order No. 278 makes a number of concessions to economic reality. First, the order “recognizes that…
Yes: “Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally?”
Peak hiring was back in 2021 and early 2022, but since then there has been a steady and fairly shop reduction in software engineer/software developer job openings
The “Lily Collins” Facebook hack is still underway
Facebook has no control over the hack. It’s being blamed on a Google Chrome extension – but I don’t use Google Chrome. It’s also been blamed on a drive by…
How did a 2FA protected Facebook account get hacked?
Through a mistake in Facebook’s account management that enabled a hacker to attach a victim’s phone number (linked to the FB account) to their own FB account. That’s one possibility:…
Economy: Federal Reserve interest rates over time
This chart illustrates how the Fed got way behind on interest rates, will a crushing rapid rate hike sequence. The chart also shows how much worse things were when peak…
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…
Follow up: NY Times-“The evidence that high inflation is coming is weak”.
It takes a special kind of expert to be wrong more often than a coin flip. Here, the NY Times tells us in Feb 2021 that inflation will remain low…
Health care: “Most headache-related brain scans aren’t needed”
Brain MRI’s are said to have little value in treating patients with headaches – but we do ever more of them: In their JAMA Internal Medicine paper, the researchers reported…