Link. Obama era, when US cared about civilians
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The appendix and Parkinson’s Disease
Link. I doubt causal. Maybe same problem affects brain and gut, increases appendicitis risk.
Falwell rumors.
Link. Colorful people.
Creating, managing and using Apple File System snapshots for startup drive backups | Der Flounder
Link. Reference.
Blue Origin: “Bezos invests more than $1 billion in the company each year, through sales of his Amazon shares”
Link. Not all bad.
Al Franken has a podcast.
Link. He’s still popular in MN. Shame Klobuchar threw him under Gillibrand’s bus.
World population demographics and history.
Link. Everyone should know this. Instapaper.
America the diminished.
Link. So much wealth, so little courage.
America the diminished.
Link. So much wealth, so little courage.
Lyft/Über on collision course with reality.
Link. We will know economy is at full employment when driver rates increase. Also, we are 15-30 years from true autonomous vehicles so great shorting opportunities.
Ban Right on Red for Drivers.
Link. Our motor vehicle traffic laws are insane.
Economist replays NYT’s Trump Kayfabe article.
Link. The original was better. Disagree with the last paragraph advice. Berlusconi is our best example.
Trump’s bluster and the stock market.
Link. Markets will be shocked if Trump fails to be craven
5-HTTLPR: How to lie with genomics.
Link. My fave: “negative life events cause depression at p = 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001”
Omic disease screens.
Link. Seems inevitable. Will have good and bad results.
Phage treatment for intractable infection in young CF patient.
Link. Another teen died before she could be treated. This is astounding experimental success.
“About this Mac => Storage => Manage provides a 1-click way to delete Garbage Band and iOS update files.”
Link. Good to know. I have had very few Mojave problems.
Federal Reserve Warns as Risky Corporate Debt Exceeds Peak Crisis Level
Link. Trump will protect us.
China uses NSA hacking tools it snared
Link. Huge amounts ofvmoney go into security now
High rate of postpartum cardiovascular death in black Americans.
Link. Obesity contributes, but not whole story. Smoking rates are low. Hypercoagulable state? Socioeconomic stressors? Hypertension? Compare Canada?
Dems will need to manage around Trump impeachment.
Link. He has decided impeachment helps him. I think will happen for better or worse.
Austria: “Mr. Kurz’s deputy chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the Freedom Party and onetime neo-Nazi, “
Link. Closely allied, like Trump, with Putin.
IINA Video Player plays Mac videos Apple has abandoned
Link. Getting it.
How the Saudis Made Jeff Bezos Public Enemy No. 1
Link. Trump allies.
One-Ring Robocall Scam
Link. Don’t call back. Will get charged in an international phone scam
When Mojave says freeze it isn’t kidding
Link. He rebooted too soon. Can take hours. Not good UX.
Open macOS Apple News links in Safari.
Link. Registers as url handler.
“What’s driving the economy now is, instead, deficit spending.”
Link. It will be fun to laugh at future FoxGOPers promoting fiscal responsibility. Like Evangelical and family values.
If election is close SCOTUS will cheat.
Link. A corrupt state. Pelosi knows this.
Why a photographer stopped converting RAW to DNG.
Link. Undated. Manufacturers ignored DNG. Mac version DNG converter is old.
“aims to merge iPhone, iPad, and Mac applications into single downloads that can run on any Apple device. Eventually, it could also merge the App Stores.”
Link. Read this from the bottom. Top half is boilerplate.
Cory Booker’s Gun Licensing Program.
Link. Some FoxGOP fury would be helpful for Booker. At this rate FoxGOP will self-combust.
FoxGOP threat: “Facebook could lose its Communications Decency Act section 230 protections, which shield it from liability from user-generated content”
Link. Trump is good at this game. So now we have to like Facebook? (Twitter is more despicable now.)
“The way he designed it, it was persistently putting out a 315 megahertz signal,” Mr. Glassburn said. That is the frequency many car fobs and garage door openers rely on.”
Link. Hobbyist havoc. Impressive!
ViTLXML (View iTunes Library XML) App
Link. For old school folk
Painted bike lanes and auto passing distances
Link. A small minority of idiots pass significantly closer with painted bike lanes than no paint. (OTOH average is 6 feet, which is decent.)
“We somehow got away with our plan to kill IE6 without facing any meaningful corrective action.”
Link. When Chrome was great.
Otto bike lock has a support page for when it forgets your combination.
Link. I needed this page when combo switched from 0920 to 0919. Returning the $70 lock to my LBS. They had one job …
Intensive parenting.
Link. I don’t think this is economic anxiety alone. Or even mostly. Parenting has been getting more intensive for hundreds of years. Maybe thousands.
“what if the things people desire don’t bring them happiness?”
Link. Facebook and other addictive substances. No different from television or sugar soda. We make poor choices.
“troubling patterns, unanswered questions, and tantalizing leads suggest that Russia relied on human sources to interfere in the 2016 election”
Link. Was one HELL of a successful operation.
Gordon’s platform 2020.
Link. I’m running for the Presidency of the United States of America. Really, you could do worse. Actually, you have done far worse.
iTunes Match bug – 1,500 lost tunes
Link. Cloud stores decrease risk for most, increase risk for people like me.
FBI saves us from another terrorist wannabe.
Link. Losers. They are always users, usually dim. Also, thank you FBI.
How Larry Nassar abused hundreds of girls in plain site.
Link. It’s not the shady awkward volunteer you need to worry about. It’s the charming star.
Another go at making Alzheimer’s a prion disease.
Link. We’re kind of stuck. So back to the 90s.
Adobe being scummy to LR users: dynamic price test.
Link. Why we all hate Adobe. Which is where Apple exiled their Aperture users. Without a viable conversion strategy. So photo geeks kinda hate Apple too.
Cycling routes in Apple Maps.
Link. I’ve never seen a feature poll where 95% say “yes, absolutely”. This is why I don’t take Apple Maps seriously.
macOS document quarantine flags: a bad design has bugs.
Link. A lovely example of software entropy and technical debt. Apple could spend next five years just paying off that debt.
Endgame Thor and the humor of fat depressed people with substance abuse
Link. Yep. The Russo bros screwed this me up