Link. What a great party.
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Dollar global currency. Still. Even more
Link. Least bad option. That is not a good sign.
China’s wealthy start to worry
Link. Hand of Mao brakes grave earth
Finder Shows Incorrect Folder Sizes
Link. Another nasty bug
“During Mr. Skilling’s time in prison, his parents and his 20-year-old son have died.”
Link. He paid a full price.
Form of “ABJ Venture” emeges
Link. A potential player in ACA reform
Phone detox described.
Link. Hate to admit it …
Dickens lived too long.
Link. He ended badly. Timing is everything.
Suddenly insurers love ACA
Link. They almost make me favor M4A. Just shut up.
Noah reviews “The Revolt of the Public”
Link. Praises then methodically dismantles leaving smoldering corpse
“cost of wireless data plans were notably more expensive in countries that allowed zero rating as opposed to those that have prohibited the practice.”
Link. I’m subsidizing video for other people
“a universe that is sitting quite happily in the false vacuum could, via random quantum fluctuations, suddenly find part of itself in the true vacuum, causing disaster”
Link. Everything dies.
US construction costs: “… excessive reliance on consultants …”
Link. Nobody mentions Baumol’s cost disease.
Amazon teen/child account can’t use Amazon Dot.
Link. That is really sucky Amazon.
“number of organs available for transplants from deceased donors in the U.S. has dramatically climbed in recent years, almost entirely due to more overdose deaths.”
Link. I still don’t get it.
Burton Richter on the Future of Particle Physics
Link. Sabine not the only skeptic.
Uighur control facilitated by US specialists.
Link. Thermo Fisher may take significant financial hit for ending their participation.
Curbsiders on depression meds.
Link. Makes usual textbook discussion seem a waste of time. I’m writing notes on this one.
Google restarts its proprietary social platform with Maps Follow.
Link. Clever – drives every enrity to Maps.
This is the GOP 2019: “tool designed to shut the national security community up on climate change.”
Link. The stupidity is staggering
PDF Expert review
Link. Positive overall, but redaction fail disturbing
PDF Expert review
Link. Positive overall, but redaction fail disturbing
“The trolls want Democrats to eat each other.”
Link. Gillibrand was played by trolls, took down Franken
Venezuelan views.
Link. More hopeful than not.
The curious case of Trumpista Denialist William Happer.
Link. A talented physicist at one time, now clearly delusional. 79 so maybe high IQ dementia, similar to Linus Pauling.
These psychiatric edge cases are fascinating.
Fixing CO2 emissions – 2019 consensus.
Link. Lessons have been learned, people have been thinking.
“seeing kernel_task taking high percentages of CPU isn’t a useful sign of impending catastrophe”
Link. How Mac regulates temp.
Shouldn’t Google recall Nest Guard devices with undocumented microphone?
Link. A manufacturing defect
Lessons From 6 Software Rewrite Stories
Link. Must read. Spolsky respect
Ultimate guide to winter bicycling dress.
Link. Pure gold.
Quebec attracts young of France.
Link. Happy news for my birthplace
“a bug in the T2 firmware affecting timing synchronisation can disrupt the majority of devices which use audio over USB 2″
Link. Yikes.
“Ten Modes of Market Failure”
Link. Quick reference.
Harding Center for Risk Literacy: Fact Boxes
Link. Which therapies make a difference. The Fact box for PSA testing is quite grim.
Wheeler’s thoughts on Quantum mechanics – pdf
Link. Why isn’t there a readable version of this essay? Moldy low res scan …
“findings support the safety of long-term HCQ at doses ≤5 mg/kg/day.”
Link. That’s good news.
Psychopharmacology 2.0, Antidepressants
Link. Lecture notes excellent. “atypical antipsychotics require periodic weight, cholesterol, and diabetes screening after starting treatment.”
Greenlight monitored debit card for “kids” – early impressions.
Link. Feels like a startup that didn’t scale quickly enough…
“Mr. Obama continues to express frustration that he did not anticipate Mr. Trump’s victory”
Link. I’d love to know what he thinks happened to America. Doubt he can say.
Apple 2019: “another example of sloppy, unchecked code which has clearly never been tested for bugs”
Link. Maybe macOS is just too complicated?
Bill Barr is bad.
Link. Perfect Trump choice.
The nut graf fight explained.
Link. Journalists feel it ruins their story. Sorry dudes, I don’t read non-fiction without some sense of return on my time. Life is far too short. If you dislike nut graf write fiction.
Transmissible Alzheimer’s Disease
Link. Prions stick to steel unforunately well. Evolutionarily fascinating
Science and open access: societies lose funding streams
Link. Changes in pharma had similar impact on medical societies. Change like this is very hard
CDC on Venezuelan epidemics of preventable diseases.
Link. I do not understand.
“Do you need a public blockchain? The answer is almost certainly no.”
Link. Also, cryptocurrencies are useless. Next!
“get the physical decoherence rate to be well enough that you can start using these error correcting codes, and then push the effective decoherence rate down to zero.”
Link. Aaronson interview, QC primer.
Why your phone can’t tell you which direction to start off in
Link. Google has a partial fix
Brexit may make London more tolerable
Link. After the collapse of course
China’s Final Solution.
Link. Uighur camps.