Best of Twitter - Week of March 30, 2020 - defrosting a thought-virus from the melt
if a thought is in a book, but nobody living has read it… the act of resuscitating it is a bit like defrosting a thought-virus from the melt
So many organizations also replaceable for "Google" here, and so many jobs replaceable for "PM."
Flo Crivello @Altimor
Ever wondered how the @zoom_us macOS installer does it’s job without you ever clicking install? Turns out they (ab)use preinstallation scripts, manually unpack the app using a bundled 7zip and install it to /Applications if the current user is in the admin group (no root needed).
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ICYMI: 30% of elderly people have #Alzheimers pathology (plaques &/or tangles) but no disease. Scientists are trying to ID the molecular basis for that "resilience" and turn it into a therapeutic:
Starting watching this great new bouldering channel yesterday (youtube.com/channel/UCUqIR…) and became this guy's second Patreon supporter. Chatting for a bit he finds my Patreon, throws some money back my way. Yes, we're losing money on transaction fees but the internet can be nice!
^ a reminder that status is not zero-sum!
The following section is under quarantine… ba dum tss
March 2020 was the month that you learned whether or not, if you got sent to prison for a crime you didn’t commit, you’d emerge well-read and fantastically ripped.
7) Poor: Trying to work, but nothing. Trying to quarantine, maybe. But they got little space, lots of obligations & tons of bills coming. 5th floor walk up with one bathroom & 9 people. Shit getting frustrating. Bodega running low & over-priced anyhow. Can't stock up. Fuck this
Overconfidence is a pernicious bias, even in experts. It's astounding how few experts' confidence intervals included the correct estimate of #COVID19 infections in the US by 3/29 when forecasting for just two weeks in the future. (of course, non-expert estimates are even worse)