Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Yes, this excellent article was behind a paywall. This paywall is easily bypassed by either a) turning off Javascript in the browser (easily done by the ublock privacy addon), or b) clearing the cookies for nytimes.com. Sarbajit On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 12:03 AM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
If your mother is or was a Jew you're a Jew according to Jewish laws or traditions. Unfortunately my Southern Baptist grandfather broke the chain from his grandmother to me. I'd like to find an American who can demonstrate that he has no African American ancestors. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Jon Zingale
""" I don't know Jon, except from a single VFriam during the peak of the pandemic last year. I really hope that he meant that as some sort of a joke, though even that would be in very, very bad taste. """ I don't know you either, Gary, so I certainly don't need your judgement. .-- .- -. - / .-

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Barry MacKichan
The author Isabel Wilkerson wrote two books which I’ve read in the last year or two. The second one was “Caste, The Origins of our Discontents.” In it, she looks at castes in three countries: India, the US, and Germany. She notes the extent to which the Nazis, once they had control of the gover

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Gillian Densmore
Ublock and nano blocker, (for instance) skips the paywall. so does adding a . into the url. (chrome) it's a feature. it basically asks the url to look for absolute links from relative ones. (good for testing ?) you can also turn on readermode (skips the paywall): https://www.nytimes.com./2021/10/

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Gary Schiltz
I don't know Jon, except from a single VFriam during the peak of the pandemic last year. I really hope that he meant that as some sort of a joke, though even that would be in very, very bad taste. If he was serious, then I would say "shame on you". At the ripe young age of 63 years, I've begun to r

Re: [FRIAM] [dis]integrated

2021-10-16 Thread David Eric Smith
Very nice line in Hossenfelder's podcast, which works because of her rather Aspergers delivery. What one hears (with a fully sincere affect): The society of truth-loving men no longer exists. Had there been a written version, one might have found: The “Society of Truth-Loving Men” no longer

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Marcus Daniels
Jon writes: “They needed someone to write interfaces for their scientific software. The interview was with two postdocs that spent the entire interview making fun of me, beginning with questions about Dunning-Kruger. After an hour, I got off the call and spent the weekend working through depres

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Jon Zingale
I ended up getting the $1 subscription and now I have to do a chat to cancel it :( Thank you for the article, though. Nicely written. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualf

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
Thank you for the compliment, Marcus. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 1:13 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > One way to prepare for decline is to accumulate wealth to share with > children and grandchildren. Another way i

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
Am I a silver fox? Wow! The fact that my income now is greater than when I was working has a lot to do with inflation. At this point I am saving for my children and grandchildren. On my birthday when my family ask what gift I want I say that I don't want any because I already have too many thin

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Marcus Daniels
One way to prepare for decline is to accumulate wealth to share with children and grandchildren. Another way is to bank stem cells and to stay fit. But when death comes, I wonder how far we off from being able to harvest memories from the morphology of dendritic spines? [1] One might imagin

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Barry MacKichan
I tried again. This time I used the sharing icon on the NYT website. On 16 Oct 2021, at 14:52, Jon Zingale wrote: > Barry, > > It is behind a payway. Would you summarize? > > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--..

[FRIAM] Opinion | The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think - The New York Times

2021-10-16 Thread Barry MacKichan
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html?searchResultPosition=1 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.co

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Jon Zingale
Barry, It is behind a payway. Would you summarize? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Jon Zingale
""" Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die. So it doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated. """ Something similar to that, so thank you for this opportunity to clarify. What are examples of goals that others not like yourself might have? For

[FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Barry MacKichan
Zeynep Tufekci had a column in the NY Times that agrees with Glen’s (oops! I mean s‚uǝlƃ) position in the discussion yesterday. It makes it more understandable why many have resisted vaccinations. (I hope it is not behind a paywall.) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-un

Re: [FRIAM] [dis]integrated

2021-10-16 Thread Marcus Daniels
Her delivery on terraforming is not quite so deadpan. But I say build that fusion reactor and the superconducting ring! > On Oct 16, 2021, at 9:28 AM, David Eric Smith wrote: > > Very nice line in Hossenfelder's podcast, which works because of her rather > Aspergers delivery. > > What

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die. So it doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:35 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > """ > You may

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Jon Zingale
""" You may be interested to know... that having identified a high risk population... we were ethically bound to intervene in their young lives. The result was that we established a Head Start preschool. """ It mostly raises questions for me about whom I would want to establish a Head Start progra

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
I know your name is Jon. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 9:17 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Sorry about that, John. Those post-docs sound like A holes. They exist > at all educational levels. > > We at the Pitt Medica

[FRIAM] that hobgoblin of internal consistency

2021-10-16 Thread Marcus Daniels
For those of that just can’t stop their persnickety ways, Alexandra Petri brings us some help. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/16/finally-understand-kyrsten-sinema-360-easy-steps/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexit

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sorry about that, John. Those post-docs sound like A holes. They exist at all educational levels. We at the Pitt Medical were just trying to shed light on cardiovascular differences by race in order to aid focussed intervention. You may be interested to know that one of the team, Naomi Ragins,

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-16 Thread Jon Zingale
This came up on my stream: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV_2BzrTBAE&ab_channel=Then%26Now Eventually, the video discusses eugenics, which of course, the United States helped spearhead: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Record_Officer * https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/haunte