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App Store Competition: the consensus
Link. Apple fears competition and suppresses it
High Efficiency Video Coding (h.265): the patent wars continue.
Link. I think FaceTime uses h.265 and patents may be why Jobs “open” promise was never fulfilled. Now it’s 4K TV …
Comedy in the Israeli Knesset
Link. Must read.
WWDC by Sundell: “fire up your RSS reader and subscribe to this site’s feed”
Link. Glory Days.
NYT: ‘In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc’
Link. “Remember when the FBI wanted Apple to build backdoors into iPhones, arguing that Apple could trust them”. Zing!
Mole-Rats Are Impervious to Many Types of Pain
Link. Wonderful biology including studies of physiology and genetics.
Separated bike lanes protect pedestrians too.
Link. Painted lanes have negligible benefits for anyone.
Private phone browsing: VPN + DuckDuckGo.app
Link. Best pair I know of.
“two Department of Energy officials used the terms “freedom gas” and “molecules of US freedom” to replace your average, everyday term “natural gas.”
Link. The fact of the movie Idiocracy is starting to really disturb me.
Bone marrow lesions in osteoarthritis
Link. OA is a lot of different diseases
“Oh, we’d fill it,” Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, gleefully told a friendly Chamber of Commerce audience”
Link. I respect the honesty of McConnell’s evil. He trained with the tobacco industry. Suspect even Trump thinks he’s sleazy.
UFO analyzed.
Link. We need a distraction.
“idea that young people don’t vote isn’t holding true in the Trump era.”
Link. Hope is a weakness. Only despair can sustain the resistance.
Mueller – “the constitutional process for holding the President accountable for his crimes is impeachment.”
Link. Put McConnell on the historic record.
“low-cost products can be subsidized by privacy-respecting advertising — but privacy-respecting advertising is not as profitable as privacy-invasive advertising”
Link. Google & Facebook can’t afford to change.
Where Medicines Come From.
Link. Pharma mostly.
“There are about 5.3bn people on earth aged over 15. Of these, around 5bn have a mobile phone.”
Link. That was quick.
“The ongoing flooding is consistent with scientific studies showing the increasingly apparent effects of human-caused climate change”
Link. Red states afloat.
“cosmic web is driven by dark matter, but the small structures along the filaments form by the collapse of normal, electromagnetically-interacting matter.”
Link. This is weird stuff.
3D Touch gone.
Link. Not worth cost and complexity.
Best possible Apple Card review: banks expect it to be low profit.
Link. Partly due Apple’s slice, but wow. Great news.
“she rebelled against her parents so ferociously that she moved out on her own in Pittsburgh when she was 14, supporting herself by working as a waitress, a taxi driver, in jazz clubs and in pizza parlors.”
Link. Nobel prize in chemistry, Caltech professor.
Ms Jiang has not forgotten Tianamen
Link. Brave woman
“Mr. Trump has made fun of Mr. Bolton’s reputation for hawkishness, joking that the adviser would get him into war”
Link. Hah hah.
“those who took more than 35 milligrams of B6 and 20 micrograms of B12 were 47 percent more likely to have a hip fracture.”
Link. What’s the mechanism? Wonder if is something correlated
Ice Lake: “Thunderbolt 3 and Wi-Fi 6 will both also be incorporated directly into the CPU”
Link. T3 has a future.
“Just bring back a music-only iPod with a good old click wheel.”
Link. The clip on Nano was perfect
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
A clever editorial from the future on opportunity and genetic enhancements.
Link. So well done and inevitably correct.
“the efforts of caregivers are probably just as important to health as the drugs and procedures the medical system provides.”
Link. Friends and family are a gift.
Darwin and naming
Link. Is Darwin underrated?
“natural language learning systems, which include strongly probabilistic features, might make some headway with animal communication systems”n
Link. Non-categorical language
GOPFox attack on science: “Mr. Happer and Mr. Bolton are both beneficiaries of Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the far-right billionaire and his daughter who have funded efforts to debunk climate science.”
Link. Trump lashes out.
“I fired up LaunchControl and two minutes later had a launchd job installed that opened the SSH tunnel on boot and kept relaunching it if it ever failed.”
Link. Useful technique
“Juul has had to rely on scientists with tobacco industry ties”
Link. The league of evil scientists. Imagine their meetings.
Sleep apnea is weirdly common
Link. BMI of 30 isn’t so high.
Refuting claims that low income wages have not stagnated
Link.
“I just hit 100,000 reputation on Information Security StackExchange”
Link. A different sort of social network.
“52 percent of beer drinkers said this year that they wanted to reduce their consumption of alcohol”
Link. Me too! 5% is just fine. I avoid the high alcohol IPAs, I’m a wimp.
“In most southern states, white women express at least as much opposition to legal abortion as white men, and in some cases more”
Link. Very unpopular opinion: Excluding Catholic Church, I think American men are politically opportunistic followers in this struggle.
“n April, Customs and Border Protection detained close to a hundred and ten thousand people on the Mexican border”
Link. A challenge for a competent government. A disaster now.
Getting my Emily’s iCloud photos — you can multi-select in Photos.web (again)
Link. Wish these kinds of fixes got more attention. Was probably months ago.
“Windows today uses backslash as a path separator because 50 years ago, TOPS-10 used forward slash as an option separator.”
Link. I still get mixed up.
A methodical review of US trade issues with China
Link. Short: Trump is a cancer
Recreational drugs evolved to repell insects.
Link. We have same basic brain but also dopamine system.