Link. I use to rant on this 10-20y ago. It takes so long for these ideas to diffuse. Apple is the grandmaster of course.
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Vehicle History Services
Link. Some free.
“Russian officials are talking about agreements coming out of that meeting, but Americans have no idea what was agreed”
Link. GOP owns this.
What Is Apple AirPlay 2?
Link. I appreciated this
“Google Play Services silently shifted ever more apps from Android apps to Google Play apps”
Link. Excellent context for EU fine
Where it is wise to be jaded: “Huge HR Initiatives That Will Totally Change the Way We Do Business.”
Link. Until the 7:30 am cattle call.
Google, Facebook, & Microsoft’s Data Transfer Project
Link. Apple will never cooperate.
Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Lecture.
Link. A brief and valuable read with analysis of what went wrong and the path forward. Also, I think, hint of frustration with the apathetic citizen.
Kompromat and sistema: why Trump acts like a grossly incompetent Russian agent.
Link. Trump money laundering involved family members too.
Brain mapping automation: Google deep learning enhancement.
Link. Connectonomics.
Google Custom Search Engine: more money.
Link. It isn’t totally dead then
Post Trump surrender Putin toys with America.
Link. Irresistibly easy.
Since Jan 2017 Trump has known Putin worked for his election
Link. Worthy of note.
Autonomous vehicles used to derail transit projects
Link. A convenient weapon. AV remind me of speech recognition in the 80s.
India is also in the toilet
Link. Social media a factor.
“only 28 percent of young adults ages 18 to 29 say they are “absolutely certain” they’ll vote in midterms, compared to 74 percent of seniors.”
Link. Don’t feel bad about leaving millennials a wrecked civilization. They deserve it.
Rural health care in deep trouble.
Link. Rural America isn’t viable.
Apple: “all my apps broke in some way on every single new OS that came out.”
Link. Aggravating to users
1999 … “annual rate of cirrhosis deaths jumped 65 percent by 2016″
Link. Virus?
“Donald Trump, as crazy as it sounds and as difficult as it may be to believe, is under some kind of influence or control by a foreign adversary power, whether by fear or avarice or some other factor.”
Link. An emerging establishment consensus
“fewer than a third of the states have reportedly undergone the security audits offered by the Department of Homeland Security.”
Link. GOP tacitly encouraging Russian intervention in midterm elections.
Valsartan recall: “It’s becoming very difficult for me to write prescriptions at all”
Link. Libertarians happy?
“Mr. Putin was “extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Mr. Trump said.”
Link. Trump is a fascinating pathology.
Trump appointee at VA purges during a leadership gap.
Link. “he had not communicated with Mr. Wilkie regarding these changes.”
“journalists have been asked to allow the Wild Boars to return to the business of being normal boys”
Link. We have to let them be.
Musk being sleazy and despicable again
Link. A $1 billion libel judgment would be nice
WhatsApp fueled mob murders in India.
Link. Who gains from the videos?
Software Development: how it works.
Link. Exactly
“Just because Amazon is successful, doesn’t mean it’s particularly harmful to anybody else.”
Link. Somewhat contrarian. Implies one should invest in companies after Amazon enters their space.
Brexit status.
Link. GOP has a rival in catastrophe.
Iran: No Plan B
Link. Maybe Trump is trying to promote global MAD?
Upstaging Anna Chapman
Link. Russia really is like Trump’s America.
“Russia exerts a control over President Trump. So the US is in grave danger.”
Link. Through him the GOP.
Mariia Butina: the spy who loved … guns.
Link. NRA leaders were putty in her hands.
Average lifespan of the parts of a house
Link. Ref.
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive”
Link. Jobs had a gift.
Obama speaks.
Link. When Obama is alarmed it is time to lower the gates.
Tsai suggests patreon donations
Link. I love his work
DF: “most powerful person in the world isn’t Trump or Putin but Rupert Murdoch”
Link. I thought I was alone. What is Murdoch’s motivation? What does Putin have on him?
“Trump’s entire company, and therefore his personal wealth, is held afloat entirely by Russian money”
Link. Agree pee tape wouldn’t bother today’s GOP. So it’s something else.
Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft
Link. This will be refined.
“Canadian practices spend only 27 percent of what U.S. ones do on dealing with payers like Medicare or private insurers.”
Link. American stupidity.
Muelller GRU indictment: a warning to Putin.
Link. US intel knows a lot. A warning to Trump as well.
“we wouldn’t say entropy is a property of a system, but a property of an observer who describes a system.”
Link. Quantum thermodynamics. Fun overview.
A sober analysis of trade and alliances in the age of Trump
Link. The most important midterm elections in decades.
DeLong excerpts Goebbels.
Link. A stream of words that have the rhythm of reason without actual reason.
““predictive coding” theory, at each level of a cognitive process, the brain generates models, or beliefs, about what information it should be receiving from the level below it”
Link. Modern models of thought.
“the unobservable Universe, assuming there’s no topological weirdness, must be at least 23 trillion light years in diameter”
Link. How do you create exactly one universe?
Amazon’s bizarre price hacks.
Link. Lesser versions of this in some collectable items. I know a vulnerable adult buyer.
“Democrats currently hold a substantial 52-38 percent lead among white women at the moment.”
Link. I don’t believe this.