Survival of Patients Diagnosed With Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic. You can tell that the authors struggled for the right wording. They
didn't want too sound to harsh on the doctors or policy makers, who may
already harbor suspicions that they did the wrong thing. Those were dark times for cancer patients. Treatments were delayed and rescheduled. We see now that much of the fear was overblown. How can we learn from all of this, and strive for a more measured and informed response to pandemic threats like this.
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Today, Dr. Marty Makary resigned as FDA Commissioner. He's going to be replaced by...a lawyer? If Makary opposed fruit-flavored vapes, why was he overruled? It's too bad because he was a sane voice against the mRNA vax. Maybe Big Pharma pushed him out.
Harvard Study Finds Wind Turbines Will Cause More Warming Than Emissions Reductions Would Avert. The Harvard study came out in 2018 – why are just finding out about it now? The study also found that
...the cooling impact of reducing emissions would be very small. U.S. temperature reductions from lowering our domestic emissions would be around 0.2 to 0.4°F (around 0.16°C) by 2100.
Ice cream isn't what it used to be. More enshittification. What was surprising is that Häagen-Dazs is now considered premium ice cream. I remember when ice cream snobs looked down on it. But it's actually more true to the original than Tillamook ice cream, a local favorite. And now I have another reason to avoid Ben and Jerry's ice cream, besides their politics.
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Have you noticed geeks walking around with half-opened laptops? Here's why. They're running agents. This is getting out of hand, no?
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Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems may have a connection to zero-knowledge proofs. I saw Amit Sahai's name in the article. He did a nice video some time ago explaining the mechanics of zero-knowledge proofs to where you could understand them.
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It finally happened. Coursera and Udemy have completed their merger. This is a great way to educated about a lot of stuff. Hope this makes their offerings even better.
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I thought this was a joke. Some Swedes are promoting a program where you can get doctors to "prescribe Sweden", that is, a short stay in the country to relax and escape. If they're going to do this, they'd better reverse their immigration policy, which is rapidly ruining the Swedish culture and experience. Pretty soon, it won't be any different from staying in downtown Portland or Seattle, which would be a lot cheaper.
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Depending on whether someone has connections or specializes in a particular line of research, one engineer can earn $500,000 a year, while another may earn $50 million. A Google scientist making more than $600,000 said he was anxious about not being able to afford an apartment located in a good school district. He wasn’t married, and didn’t have a child. But he was still worried. “Others are making millions, and I want that, too,” he told me.
Holy crap.
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A drug called tofersen can help some patients with ALS. Tofersen is an antisense oligonucleotide of a mutated superoxide dismutase, SOD-1, commonly associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It has to be administered intrathecally.
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Digg is now trying to be an AI news aggregator company. Give it up, already. News aggregators are so yesterday. Besides, news is personal. I may not like the news feeds they select to get their news from. The company is clearly adrift.
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True State of Oregon under a Democrat Supermajority:
What are Portland voters concerned with most?
Oregon Democrats have genius political strategy: raising the gas tax heading into the midterm elections
Oregonians push for universal childcare, as report shows costs can exceed $20K annually. Why do we have to pay for other people's childcare? It seems to be a "Learing Center" grift. It's a business model for people who can't find employment any other way.
Oregon Democrats have genius political strategy: raising the gas tax heading into the midterm elections
Oregonians push for universal childcare, as report shows costs can exceed $20K annually. Why do we have to pay for other people's childcare? It seems to be a "Learing Center" grift. It's a business model for people who can't find employment any other way.
Shock poll: 59% Portlanders dislike Kotek. Just imagine what the numbers would be outside of the Blue cities.