“PanChol” clinical trial thread unroll
All my posts prior to today about my participation in a clinical trial for a truly revolutionary cholera vaccine.
The solution I’ve found for non-rich Americans who want to legally move some money offshore
You can use Wise to convert dollars into foreign currency at a very competitive rate, then transfer the converted currency into an HSBC Expat account, if you have enough liquidity to open one.
How I lost my family’s email, recovered most of it, and made sure it wouldn’t happen again
I made some mistakes, it cost me some time and a bit of lost data, and I’ve taken steps to make sure if it happens again I’ll lose less time and less data.
Blast from the past: Boston Globe “special section” on Clinton Impeachment
Look back on simpler times, when the GOP pretended that lying about an affair was sufficient grounds to remove a president from office. Look, and despair.
Today’s example of “everything is shit and there’s nothing we can do about it”
We encounter bits and pieces of micro-shittiness all day, every day, because people don’t care about the quality of their work, people don’t take responsibility for fixing things that are broken, and people don’t think any of it matters, even though it does, very much, actually.
Today’s edition of There Are No Good Health Insurance Companies
My insurance company screwed something up, and after many online messages, letters, and phone calls, it’s still not 100% certain that it’s resolved, and even if it is it’s going to take another month to be properly fixed.
Finally built my own PC, should have done it years ago!
I got a much faster computer for much less than it would have cost if I had bought something pre-assembled.
City of Boston electronic poll books: they DO know what they’re doing!
Boston has robust plans in place to ensure that Poll Pad failures will not compromise an election, but I still have some concerns.
Don’t abuse open-source software maintainers or this might happen
If you abuse me privately, I will name and shame you publicly.
The Anti-Defamation League has always been trash
In 1988, B’nai B’rith told supporters, “The Arab presence on the college campus is poisoning the minds of our young people.” They meant it then, and they mean it now even more.