11 November 2023

Fascinating. Astronomy wonders like this always brighten my mood. So here's a 3-year analemma.

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A study in contrasts. Here's "the happiest man in the world" who doesn't care what you think about him. And here's Elon Musk, who almost had to have a "wellness check" done because he was depressed after being booed at during a Dave Chapelle show.  He actually was stunned at what people thought about him.

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That's the message. Don't use your car to make calls or send text messages.

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At the interface of the healthcare systemPeople get caught because they don't know how to navigate the system.  I still can't believe that insurers don't feel that they have to disclose why they denied coverage for your illness. What are they afraid of? Thank goodness for ProPublica's insurance claim app.

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Apple is pays a relatively small penalty for hiring practices favoring H1-B visa holders over hiring American workers. Cringely had been calling out this practice years ago. From what I see, Apple is flooded with foreigners, and it shows in their website and advertising. Could this be why it's products are so lame these days? Like the M3 chip? And why we're seeing other companies come up with the cool stuff now? Lilke hu.ma.ne, from ex-Apple employees?

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Here's Instagram, making their app more addictive to vulnerable, lonely youth. The Internet can be sweet poison, sometimes.

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Okinawans aren't living as long as before.  Diet's changing. Lifestyle is become more stressful. I guess it was too good to last.

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A.I. is taking the easier white-collar jobs. All those sinecure positions are going away. Now, you really have to provide value, else you aren't worth the trouble.

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Why is this only on a German site?  The new Outlook allows your emails to be sent to Microsoft servers. Also your calendar and contact information will be sent there, too. You can opt out, but only if you are aware of this, and you know how to do it.

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You mean you're still willing to endure it? "Patience wearing thin."  Shoreline, WA business owners getting tired of increasing crime.  Well, you are in Seattle, you know. What do you expect? Did you guys vote Democrat? Did you vote to defund the police? Consequences of your own actions, I'd say. 

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Buyer's remorse. Oregon lawmakers now want Kotek to reverse Measure 110.

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But we need to revive Cuckoo's Nest mental hospitals. Oregon State Hospital struggles for resources now and is imploding with lawsuits. What a mess. Who would want to work there?

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Total search privacy?  Seems straightforward to me.  Let's say you want the librarian to retrieve a book for you, but you don't want the librarian to know what book you want.  The answer is to encrypt the library (preprocessing) and have the librarian bring you encrypted chunks at a time, such that the librarian doesn't know what is being retrived. But you can decrypt the chunk and read what you need and if this can be done without leaving a trace, then your secret is safe. 

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Americans don't want to fight for their country anymore. The author thinks its because of apathy. There might be some of that, but I think a major reason is that no one wants to die because of Biden's blunders. No one wants to die because of our incompetent leadership. There was a time when the cause was just and we felt it was right, but having seen that there is a world where we can live without major wars, dying in a pointless war seems even more...pointless.

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