2021-02-07 Ingrid Spilde
Saturated fats increase cholesterol. And high cholesterol is linked to heart disease. But why are researchers unable to show that saturated fat actually leads to heart disease?
2021-02-07 Ingrid Spilde
Saturated fats increase cholesterol. And high cholesterol is linked to heart disease. But why are researchers unable to show that saturated fat actually leads to heart disease?
2021-02-01 Brian DeChesare
A low spin description of what has happened with GameStop’s stock.
https://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/gamestop-short-squeeze/
2021-01-21 Paras Chopra
surgery is different than medicine. All new pharmaceutical molecules are subjected to rigorous clinical trials where they’re tested against placebo or doing nothing. In many countries, there’s no such procedure for surgical treatments. If there is a procedure for new surgical procedures, nobody is testing old ones that have been getting performed every day without evidence.
2021-01-12 Eddy Elfenbein
Nearly the entire gain of the Dow has come during the first six days of the month.
http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2021/01/the-dows-return-by-day-of-the-month.html
2021-01-16 Tom Parker
“If the government is going to be the one to decide what hate speech to ban, it’s not going to be the same speech as the speech you hate.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/former-aclu-head-ira-glasser-explains-why-you-cant-ban-hate-speech/
2021-01-13 Bruce Schneier
There’s not ever going to be enough police or security at any event to stop people if they all act in unison; if enough people want to get to Vanilla Ice at the same time, they’re going to get to Vanilla Ice. Social constructs and basic decency, not lightweight security gates, are what hold everyone except the outliers back in a typical crowd.
2000-04-06 Joel Spolsky
Netscape … [made] the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming:
It’s harder to read code than to write it.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
2020-12-09 Bruce Schneier
FireEye [a cybersecurity company] was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/12/fireeye-hacked.html
2020 Taylor G. Lunt
. . . I don’t agree with the pro-life opinion I expressed in this essay. This was a thought exercise: take on a position I disagree with, and try to make it as strong as possible.