{"id":9262,"date":"2021-07-04T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T23:51:38","slug":"7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9262","title":{"rendered":"7.4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems to me that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/citing-a-serious-flight-test-incident-and-lack-of-design-maturity-faa-slows-boeing-777x-certification\/\">key issue<\/a> is what allowed this software error to be found on the airplane rather than in the lab.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain leads the pack on vaccination, but lags far behind America, Germany and France on liberation. A big reason is that our Government remains in thrall to a profession that has performed uniquely badly during the pandemic: modellers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationaloptimist.com\/9716\">Government\u2019s reliance on Sage experts\u2019 computer modelling<\/a> to predict what would happen with or without various interventions has proved about as useful as the ancient Roman habit of consulting trained experts in \u201charuspicy\u201d \u2013 interpreting the entrails of chickens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years ago,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/jun\/26\/project-cassandra-plan-to-use-novels-to-predict-next-war\"> a small group of academics at a German university<\/a> launched an unprecedented collaboration with the military \u2013 using novels to try to pinpoint the world\u2019s next conflicts. Are they on to something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehustle.co\/the-economics-of-dollar-stores\/\">Economics<\/a> of Dollar Stores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ritapanahi\/status\/1406747784573702149?s=12\">promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda<\/a>. Western world, with a few notable exceptions, abandoned usual pandemic response &amp; blindly followed China\u2019s lockdown strategy. Not surprisingly no country replicated China\u2019s fantasy outcomes. The @WHO complicit..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huy Fong&#8217;s Sriracha <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/trungtphan\/status\/1409185044501987340\">hit revenue of $150m+ a year&#8230;with no sales team<\/a>, no trademark and $0 in ad spend. Its creator is Vietnamese-American David Tran, making the sauce&#8217;s success a tale of immigrant hustle and a product that literally sells itself. Here&#8217;s the story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to pull this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/323245-risc-vs-cisc-why-its-the-wrong-lens-to-compare-modern-x86-arm-cpus\">discussion<\/a> into the modern era and consider what the implications of this \u201cRISC versus CISC\u201d comparison are for the ARM and x86 CPUs actually shipping today. The question we\u2019re really asking when we compare AMD and Intel CPUs with Apple\u2019s M1 and future M2 is whether there are historical x86 bottlenecks that will prevent x86 from competing effectively with Apple and future ARM chips from companies such as Qualcomm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sciencemag.org\/pipeline\/archives\/2021\/06\/29\/what-mrna-is-good-for-and-what-it-maybe-isnt\">mRNA<\/a> is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/business\/electric-vehicles-environment-benefit\/\">Reuters analysis of data from a model that calculates the lifetime emissions<\/a> of vehicles, a hotly debated issue that\u2019s taking center stage as governments around the world push for greener transport to meet climate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How Amazon, Google and Other Companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/29\/opinion\/nda-amazon-google-facebook.html\">Exploit<\/a> NDAs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 1, 2021, Carl Hahn will be 95 years old. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenag.com\/en\/news\/stories\/2021\/06\/95th-birthday-carl-hahn.html#\">Volkswagen CEO<\/a> looks back on his past and shares his vision of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the risky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/06\/29\/1027290\/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan\/\">bat-virus engineering<\/a> that links America to Wuhan. It has also revealed little about its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phe.gov\/s3\/dualuse\/documents\/p3co.pdf\">system<\/a> for assessing gain-of-function risks, which is carried out by an anonymous review panel whose deliberations are not made public. Until there\u2019s more sunlight, the agency will be fighting speculation, from Paul and others, that what occurred is a scenario Fauci himself had outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3484390\/\">a 2012 commentary<\/a>discussing research on pandemic germs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intuit to Share <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2021\/07\/intuit-to-share-payroll-data-from-1-4m-small-businesses-with-equifax\/\">Payroll<\/a> Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The well is owned by Pemex, a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniogm\/status\/1411335090609606658?s=12\">state-owned entity formed from the nationalization<\/a> of private assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no local access to Rx drugs, this town of mainly cattle ranchers and hay farmers has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khnews\/status\/1411405633136599042?s=12\">crowdsourced a delivery system<\/a>, taking advantage of anyone\u2019s trip to those bigger cities to pick up medications for the rest of the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will We Ever Fly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/annals-of-technology\/will-we-ever-fly-supersonically-over-land\">Supersonically<\/a> Over Land?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said I don\u2019t exist. But I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/jul\/03\/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead\">am here\u2019<\/a> \u2013 one woman\u2019s battle to prove she isn\u2019t dead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biohackers have built small patches of flexible electronics and microfluidics, worn on the body much like a nicotine patch, capable of crafting specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/what-if\/2021\/07\/03\/what-if-biohackers-injected-themselves-with-mrna\">mrna sequences in situ and inserting them into the bloodstream<\/a>. New sequences can be beamed to the patch from a smartphone or computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that the key issue is what allowed this software error to be found on the airplane rather than in the lab. Britain leads the pack on vaccination, but lags far behind America, Germany and France on liberation. 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