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…
Demographics, Automation: “Banks turn to automation to realize efficiency gains”
Automation will increasingly support customer experience improvements, product releases and other client-relations objectives, analysts said. Source: Banks turn to automation to realize efficiency gains | Banking Dive Automation is one…
Demographics: Will automation solve the labor shortage?
Peter Zeihan suggests perhaps, maybe, kinda, we hope’ish that automation may help with labor shortages. Some think automation is hard and won’t come fast enough; I differ on that point…
Business, Demographics: TechCos might drop 4-year degree requirement
She believes the mismatch is two-fold: the time it takes to hire is too long, and hiring overlooks underrepresented groups. For example, Colangelo said only half of GenZ workers plan…
Idiocy: The Post of the Day
Am thinking of making this topic a regular feature – but there are not enough days in the year and so many idiots! The original tweet from Harvard Med was…
Follow up: Czech is why we must all wear cloth face masks
March 2020 In the spring of 2020, Covid case counts were low in the Czech Republic. A native writer from Czech, now living a dual life in both the US…