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Virus “… causes haemorrhaging and often kills in less than a week. The death rate is at least 90%.”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. African swine “flu” sounds more like Ebola than influenza. Me, I would worry about human transmission.

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Making AMP less despicable.

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Burn it.

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‘Is This Copernicus Coming Back to Haunt Us?’

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A gentle hint that it really is a Simulation.

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Horsemanship: “The aims of the dressage … ceased to make much sense … against the machine guns”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Common Sense Horsemanship, 1951. Vladimir Littauer.

The personal anecdotes jump out from this extraordinary book on becoming a horse person. Not my thing, but fascinating nonetheless. Great gift for a scholarly rider.

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Spinal muscular atrophy (maybe) cure: $2 million.

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Insurance can handle such a rare disorder … but in time we may need to shorten patent protection.

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UberLyft Trip Tips

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Some new to me. Especially at end.

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“Huawei is essential for many wireless carriers that serve sprawling, sparsely populated regions because its gear for transmitting cell signals often costs far less than other options.”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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“T2M2 analyses your logs to discover whether Time Machine backups have been running normally, reporting any worrying signs or errors”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Getting this.

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Cirrus & Bailiff: iCloud diagnostics.

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Otherwise opaque.

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Trump’s Air Force One: “televisions are streaming Fox News constantly.”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Murdoch is dying, but his monster lives on.

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The Fine Structure constant is only sort of constant.

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. New only to me. At high energies closer to 1/128. Math in muon moment calculation deserves a video.

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John Carter and the Origins of Science FiA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Free on Project Gutenberg. I got it

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Button Battery Ingestion: “For over age 1, Honey 10 ml given every 10 min while awaiting emergent endoscopy may prevent further mucosal erosion, perforation”

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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Google: “34% of users could not recall their secondary email address.”

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Mine be any one of at least 20.

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WordPress has problems.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Where are they going?

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“until you see me actively pissing on the House floor or pressing a broken beer bottle up to [Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy’s dumb face, you dipshits can rest easy knowing I’ve been sober as a goddamn judge.”

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I like the broken bottle image.

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Apple “Ask to Buy” isn’t useful for managing app installation by children or Explorers.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s only useful for managing initial purchases by an under-18 Family Sharing member.

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How To Fix Spotlight Forever Indexing issue in Mojave.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I have this after the very latest OS update.

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GOP moves to doctor government stats.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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Barr’s new power to attack Trump’s enemies.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Only the beginning.

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SSD Showdown: Seagate Fast vs Samsung T5

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. T5 wins

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Mac Open Web: RSS, blogging, open social.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Missing: WordPress, web page editor (SeaMonkey)

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Google social – the hints of public events.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Part of Android maps, not yet in iOS. Doesn’t seem to have relationship to Google Calendar, not yet a rival to Facebook Events. AFAIK Apple has nothing.

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Gabapentin reassessment.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Likely overused. Without opioids we got (almost) nothin’ for pain.

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“even at American prices, health care is still a bargain”

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. One reason price keeps rising – positive ROI.

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Now GOP will attack nations when their currency falls sgsinst the dollar.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It will get worse, and McConnell-Trump could eadily win. The world should unite against America.

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Memorial day story.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. One standing in for more.

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Dem voters: women prize winning over everything else.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Me too The worst Dem candidate is vastly better than Trump-McConnell.

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Trump loves Jackson. Tubman not so much.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trump is growing into his evil, and the GOP is completely his (save one).

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The evolution of psychiatry.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I think … the human mind is a brittle evolutionary hack working at the very extremes of biology. It is amazing we function at all.

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Facebook Provides Sensitive User Data to Corporate Partners

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Tax the externalities.

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Trump saves us.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. From Trump.

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The “Somali mob” – how the right creates hate.

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Not known Russian agents.

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Safari “Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution”

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hope Edge & Mozilla implement.

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Trumpista exploit fake Pelosi videos

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. This is the GOP.

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The unFreedom Caucus.

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We have always been at war with Oceania.

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HTLV 1 transmission by “blood-shedding religious rituals practiced in Iraq, India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.”

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Humans.

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Win 10: new clipboard history, emoji kb.

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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Civil war plant use in wound care.

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Would any random plant work as well?

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“three out of the four successful Duplex bookings were made by humans.”

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t realize Duplex had actually launched.

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Equifax negligence might impact financials. Maybe.

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Should have been bankrupted.

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“only curved on scales that are ~(250)^3 times (or more than 15 million times) larger than our presently-observable Universe is.”

Posted on May 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Smallest the universe can be given how flat it appears.

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The 6 Best Gyms in Minneapolis–St. Paul – CrossFit St Paul and Minneapolis

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. My box makes the list.

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Why cyclists are going gravel.

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Because drivers suck more than ever. In MSP we have a great separated trail network, but those aren’t usually suited to fast heads down riding. It’s weird to drive to bike though.

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America’s geography and political structures favor Biden.

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Rural areas keep successful Dems centrist.

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China caught violating ozone protocol

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Sanctions?

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NYT covers Baltimore hack without mentioning backups.

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Incompetent journalism.

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How to find all your 32-bit apps: “32-bitCheck and ArchiChect as being the closest and most complete guides”

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. He doesn’t even accept donations.

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“If you’re forced to use SMS 2FA, and probably even if you don’t, you should have a transfer PIN on your wireless account.”

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t know I could do that. Also SMS 2FA sucks.

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Trump tariffs: “we are redistributing income away from agriculture and manufacturing firms that rely on imported components and sending it towards mining industries and manufacturers that rely on domestic resources.”

Posted on May 22, 2019 by jgordon

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