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fbergeron Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise–and US doctors are in the dark

Radiolab had a great episode about it in 2016:

fbergeron Covid outbreak at CDC gathering infects 181 disease detectives

I also would like to know what percentage of people masking at the event was infected. A lot of interesting data points are missing.

fbergeron The German Model

Can you be more precise what you're referring to?

Germany's lower school system of deciding at age 10 whether you go to a school (Gymnasium) that allows you go to college later or not is definitely a big issue.

But when I went to college in Germany 10 years ago in my hometown, the cost was minimal (< 300 Euros per semester including unlimited public transport). Also there are regulated student loans (Bafoeg) that less affluent students can take advantage of.

fbergeron Parse 1.0 is released

Last time I looked at parse I think it used basic http auth over https to authenticate clients.

Having seen how easy it is to look at the plain traffic a mobile app sends with http://mitmproxy.org/ I would have concerns to use this.

Or is there some per user authentication?

fbergeron A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history

Also makes for a great interview question why a pseudo-random generator initialized with a 64 bit seed will not produce all possible shuffles of a card deck.

fbergeron Google+ Isn’t Going Away

It's interesting you're mentioning reddit. In my personal use, G+ actually started competing with with reddit.

G+'s what's hot section resembles pretty much the image subreddit at this point content-wise, but the browsing experience is better since most content is displayed inline and I can easily navigate it with j/k.

Now they just have to figure out how you can get hot content for certain categories. Of course it's missing the anonymity of the reddit community, so the content will probably never be on par.