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Beyond voodoo – Trumponomics.
Link. They drink a lot. l
Trump is a boon for Huawei.
Link. Everyone despises Trump, so by warning against Huawei he makes their case.
Confronting a Driver from Your Bike Is Never Worth It.
Link. It does nothing to make them better and it leaves you feeling worse.
Nunes And The Peter Thiel Era
Link. I hadn’t understood why i had to follow the cow.
Why you don’t need to scrub your hard drive: “Data leakage/extraction is so common that it has driven down the cost of the data itself”
Link. OTOH, my Vanguard password might be worth something.
“36 percent of Catholics” approve of Trump.
Link. Vs 50% Protestants. More Hispanic certainly, maybe more college.
America’s Emergent National DNA Database.
Link. Expected ending, unexpected path.
“base model iMac is simply not a good product and should be purchased by nobody”
Link. Exists to anchor pricing.
NYT on “replacement theory” and anti-feminism.
Link. Extraordinarily unattractive hopeless white men.
Spinning GDP.
Link. Sigh.
Pompeii state Dept: “Officials would not answer questions about whether a range of faiths was included.”
Link. Let a thousand lawsuits bloom.
Dead Google products – timeline.
Link. Around 2010 I stopped adopting Google products. Too many good things killed.
Managing human awfulness: NZ video edition.
Link. The key is disabling discovery while purging content.
Electronic consultation of specialists.
Link. Big advantage for employed clinician systems like Mayo & VA.
Concise Summary of primary care medical practice updates
Link. Scan these and see what’s new this year. Short and well done.
APFS – an Apple success story.
Link. I skipped High Sierra so never saw any issues.
GOP demonization of Joe Biden starts now.
Link. Second coming of the Antichrist.
Cannabis legalization – views of an elder economist.
Link. Lotterman doesn’t seem interested in a larger audience.
2015 death of Russian FBI informant looks like a hit.
Link. Only distant Trump connection so far.
Resize APFS disk images: hdiutil not Disk Utility
Link. Bug rather than missing feature because error message
Recovering from a photo crop error when you need to print 4×6
Link. Use an image editor to create 4×6 canvas
Bizarre electoral behavior: MA and Brexit.
Link. Less polite version: most people aren’t qualified to vote. Or drive.
China: “For many writers, blogs are a lucrative business, with readers paying small fees for content and advertisers paying for mentions of their products.”
Link. Pay for content? How? What platform? RSS?
“conservative leaders now fighting restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes include Grover Norquist’s anti-tax group, Americans for Tax Reform, the R Street Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council Action”
Link. When did the world turn into a comic book?
Racist white Republicans of Scranton PA.
Link. Trump base. Non-college. The replacement thing.
MindNode 6 adds focus feature, free upgrade
Link. I’ve wanted this for years. Surprised is free though
“Returning to the Mac after 18 years, Corel has revived its vector graphics editor”
Link. Weird.
Eggs and cholesterol in the shade again.
Link. Mediterranean diet still has best data. But diet research is hard work.
“Remember the chant at Charlottesville: “Jews will not replace us“
Link. Internet interacts badly with cognitively disadvantaged.
“some of the first research on scientists and the way they work came out of the process of setting up national health-care systems in Europe”
Link. Didn’t know that.
APFS: Container or Volume.
Link. Something good for a change.
K says don’t blame automation for low wages because no productivity jump.
Link. I still believe. But I’ve been wrong before.
“end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer to power speech input in Gboard”
Link. Yowza.
Lime bikes and scooters on Google Maps.
Link. Not MN yet.
“It can cost $10 million or more in donations to earn an applicant truly special consideration beyond their merits”
Link. Cheaper when Trump was admitted.
“Mercury is the closest neighbor, on average, to each of the other seven planets in the solar system,”
Link. On average. Not obvious …
“A value of (pi) to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton,”
Link. Pi holds an encoded story of your life
Google Fiber’s Louisville debacle.
Link. Hubris.
Cardiac Arrhythmias in hard core athletes: a fib and bradycardia escapes.
Link. CrossFit docs worry about this. We may all buy Apple watches. I’ve certainly been pre-syncopal.
Paeon to pi.
Link. Archimedes gets his moment. Deserved.
Sociology of mating – fairly monogamous, reasonably dull.
Link. Alpha life is too busy and challenging for large numbers of relationships. Also, partners are generally intolerant.
Researchers attempt to compare exercise to meds.
Link. You can’t blind exercise in trials. Still, evidence supports insurers paying gym fees when exercise prescribed.
Spotify: Time to Play Fair
Link. Tsai presents the case. Apple should lose
“There are probably more RSS reader apps these days than ever before”
Link. On Mac and iOS. Windows have any?
Mojave Preview: “Apple changed the thumbnails in the contact sheet view to be square instead of retaining their original aspect ratios.”
Link. WTF. WTF. WTF.
Micro.blog: blog archive format and export
Link. Data freedom!
Migrate from medium to Micro.blog
Link. Nice addition
Fixing Warren’s confused tech proposal.
Link. Can Warren redirect or will she show a fatal flaw?
Safari adds Google’s VP8 Video Codec for videoconferencing
Link. Great news