“Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google”
I stopped reading Ars Technica when I reached the last 5 words: The distinction between a program and an API makes intuitive sense to computer programmers who regularly use APIs…
Surprise medical billing and “balance billing”
We view our own health care providers as benevolent and altruistic. Unfortunately, many of them work for blood sucking evil accounting offices whose sole focus is to bleed you to…
Covid-19 tracing apps: UK’s tracking app continues to be a mess
3 days after official launch the UK’s contact tracing app is a mess: Users who report symptoms but then get a negative test result still must isolate because there is…
Dangers Of ‘Doomscrolling’
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Experts say spending too much time on social media can be damaging to your mental health, especially when consuming too much negative news.Are you finding yourself wasting…
We can’t breathe
Day #8 of AQI’s in the 400 to over 600 range. Was 438 a short time ago. They originally thought we’d start clearing out Tuesday, then Wednesday, then Thursday, then…
CDC director says you do not need a flu shot? Says face masks more effective than vaccine
This post was originally written on September 18, 2020 but not published at the time. It has gone live on January 26, 2021. This post highlights some insane comments from…
Wild fire history – a multi-variable problem
Global area burned 2003-2015, chart from NASA, based on satellite monitoring. Their data only goes up through 2015. Source: Researchers Detect a Global Drop in Fires U.S. historical fires, from…
We have not been outside in a week
We are now at one week of Air Quality Index values hitting around 500 +/- each day. The outside air is unbreathable. We have been confined to our sealed house…
Air Quality Index
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a numeric indicator of local air quality. Since last Thursday night, our AQI has been in the 500 to 526 range. The range only…
It’s worse than we thought: “Second Analysis of Ferguson’s Model”
In the past I had some comments on Neil Ferguson’s disease model and have repeatedly noted its poor quality. This model was used, last spring, as the basis for setting…