Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston / is on Nostr

Lawyer, litigator, patent/TM agent. Biochem. ♿ rights.

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2024-08-12 17:11:50

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"Paint 3D is the latest victim of Microsoft’s varied Windows features and apps that eventually get removed and discontinued. Windows Mixed Reality suffered a similar fate last year, alongside Microsoft Teams integration being removed from Windows 11. Microsoft is also ending its Android apps support for Windows 11 next year."
The reference to Teams is a bit unfair. I think they got dinged for anti-competitive behavior and that's what caused them to remove Teams.

2024-08-07 00:45:02

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Let's fill space so we cannot even go to Mars

2024-08-06 19:03:06

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Cable TV is dead! Long live cable TV!

2024-08-05 23:59:13

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I would have to get into the specifics of that particular one. There have been other announcements for other such vaccines and they get released to great fanfare but often small early trials showing that yes nasal vaccines can lower transmission. Yet, we still have animal.disease, and flu, and so on. I would be interested to see discussion of nasal vax uptake and what they expect to see
Put simply it's the idea that once X vaccine comes out this virus is over that I caution against

2024-08-05 23:30:52

I'll just post this generally because it's not about anyone in particular.
However we have nasal vaccines for influenza and they don't block transmission.
What possible scientific justification do people have that this will work for COVID which is _fantastically_ more transmissible than influenza?
I'm actually asking. I'd like someone to explain the science behind this to me.

2024-08-02 22:58:33

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Ah the software that makes us all theists by proving the existence of hell!

2024-05-27 18:01:55

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"One of the few people who has extensively analyzed behavior at the Trade Center in both 1993 and 2001 is Guylène Proulx at Canada’s National Research Council. And what she saw fit with Zedeño’s memory exactly. “Actual human behavior in fires is somewhat different from the panic scenario'. What is regularly observed is a lethargic response,” she wrote in a 2002 article in the journal Fire Protection Engineering. “People are often cool during fires, ignoring or delaying their response.”

2024-05-27 18:01:00

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"After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said that God was clearly “mad at America” for invading Iraq—and at black people for “not taking care of ourselves.” ...
...Inchoate as these plot lines may be, Nagin’s impulse—to inject meaning into chaos—was understandable. Narrative is the beginning of recovery. "
From Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable, about disaster response.