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High testosterone women “overrepresented by about 1,700-fold on the podium”
Link. Maybe sports should be divided by testosterone rather than gender.
Special needs dentistry: “We need to train dental students to stop throwing their hands up and to start embracing them.”
Link. Progress.
“Sacculina carcini castrates crabs, roots itself into their bodies and brains and transforms them into walking zombie slaves”
Link. Barnacle from hell.
Wages rising, more enter labor market
Link. Still weaker than even adjusted predictions.
Employing the non-college: infrastructure beats manufacturing.
Link. Manufacturing too automated now.
“state of West Virginia reached a $37 million settlement in a lawsuit against the McKesson Corporation”
Link. Opioid distribution. That was quiet. Small fine.
“Bill Barr committed a crime when he lied to Congress. Lying to Congress carries a jail sentence.”
Link. Barr miscalculated. Pardon time?
“the part of your future which is not already determined is due to random chance. It therefore makes no sense to say that humans have free will.”
Link. Alternatively you are genetics and environment, so no free will. Theists would say free will in in soul, so supernatural.
Good jobs for non-college: move to dying cities.
Link. We are learning nothing from Trump’s election.
“why it took so long for Apple to release the new MacBook Air. Their one-word answer: “Intel.”
Link. Apple doesn’t do partnerships well.
“iPhone revenue stunk”
Link. Good overview
PDF Annotations: not standard
Link. Also iCloud drive still sucks
When will automation end work for another million non-college?
Link. Anywhere from 5-15 years. Pelosi doesn’t want to think about this.
Barr – “… he’s been marinating in the Fox/GOP soup for the last two decades and is thoroughly part of the corruption Trump and his version of the GOP represents.”
Link. FoxGOP will burn America.
Vendor scam led to NASA mission failures.
Link. Puny fine. Why no prison?
“Biden had 50 percent of nonwhite voters in the CNN poll, well ahead of Sanders’s 14 percent.”
Link. Huge.
Trump admin follows the path of Russian political language.
Link. Orwell was a genius.
“Barr’s reputation is in shreds. Damaged goods like most others Trump has used up”
Link. Wraithed.
Apple’s excuse for banning parental control apps is kind of BS.
Link. MDM was Apple’s solution for schools. Parental control apps used it for years. Don’t let Apple slither off too fast. (These apps also suck, but that’s another story. Apple MDM is bad tech.)
“people from the nearby town of Xiahe used to grind the “holy bones” collected from this cave to produce medicines.”
Link. Presumably destroying Denisovan fossils of immense value to science.
Murder conviction for officer.
Link. I expect will be reversed on appeal. Manslaughter may stay. He should never have been in police work.
Microbots using nanotech.
Link. Light powered.
MMR revax: “health care workers, adults about to travel overseas, college students, and anyone living in a neighborhood or community now experiencing a measles outbreak.”
Link. I expect my employer will shot me.
The eScooter helmet thing
Link. Similar risks to inline skating, which is higher than bicycling on paved trail. Would need to attach helmet to scooter and buy huge numbers of them.
“Barr fundamentally overruled Mueller on the essential question of whether a prosecutorial decision should be made at all”
Link. Barr tricked many. Hope learning experience.
MindNode 6 features
Link. Scales to much bigger maps now. Next: shared editing
ACLU claims US border officials are abusing powers to search smartphones and laptops
Link. Donate to ACLU today.
Quarterly iPhone sales drop 30% YoY.
Link. “Huawei was one of the few manufacturers to see growth”. China and Apple design errors.
“TextEdit has gone steadily downhill and is now too embarrassing to release in source form.”
Link. Apple’s post-iOS techincal debt is vast.
‘Vampire Facials’ and HIV.
Link. Gwyneth Paltrow a fan. Of course. “Going Gwyneth” could be a catchphrase.
CRISPR baby experiment gets a full accounting
Link. I was disappointed by early media coverage. They didn’t get the basic ethical violations
Alleged test for chronic fatigue syndrome.
Link. Needs a lot more validation.
“newest version of Picktorial adds the ability to open Aperture libraries directly, without any type of conversion.”
Link. Weird. How could it read Aperture edits? Totally proprietary
UK police: victims surrender data or go unserved
Link. The UK is nuts.
NYT series on Japanese royals: part II
Link. History unfamiliar to most westerners.
“Forty years ago, Atlanta was terrorized by a serial killer who snatched and killed two dozen children, aged 7 to 17″
Link. Damn.
Apple provides much more detail on Adobe Lightroom Aperture migrator tool.
Link. Apple’s photo fail is complete. I plan to skip next macOS so I have 2y to migrate my Aperture work.
Price hiding in healthcare: lab tests.
Link. Americans are pitiful wretches unable to fix even the most egregious problems.
GOP skinks away from denialism: “Putting a price on emitting carbon into the atmosphere is verboten”
Link. Their voters are beginning to fret.
“President Trump has now uttered more than 10,000 “false or misleading claims,”
Link. Exponemtial growth
’13 Reasons Why’: “significant increases in suicide in young males”
Link. I have walked out of 2 movies. One was “Dead Poets Society”.
Microsoft design in W10 config: “three levels deep, they look exactly the same as the design language they used for Windows NT”
Link. Its nostalgic for me but it is also truly awful.
The GOP ideology is power, nothing more.
Link. We can’t take any other stated GOP ideology or policy seriously.
Trashing the WSJ’s “bad eCar” oped
Link. Don’t subscribe to Murdoch’s WSJ. Also, don’t read it.
Tsai thorough review of fallout from NYT Screen Time article
Link. He covers everything. I like his analysis.
Screen Time APIs for use by third-party apps would satisfy all.
Link. I really appreciate that NYT article. Apple did a terrible job on Screen Time.
The long hard slog towards gun management in America.
Link. Plan on a constitutional amendment.
“powerful global forces are holding down inflation and interest rates worldwide”
Link. Krugman has been quiet lately on what those forces are. Everyone is quiet. Not a good look for economics.
“The community founded by the late Mel Lyman is still around today and runs a flourishing home-renovation business in the Los Angeles area.”
Link. An exceptional contribution to the cult literature. Love the reference to the lawyers.