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The Most Commonly Spoken Language in Each State Besides English and Spanish. Map.

Posted on January 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hmong for MN not surprise. Tagalog and Korean surprise. German default.

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How To Force Refresh a Google Calendar subscription

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Tweak URL of the source calendar

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“the cave was continuously occupied for over 300,000 years”

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Mostly Denisovan. We won’t last anywhere near that long.

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Cold Phone: “Allow it to slowly come up to room temperature before you recharge it. Failing to do so sets off a different, unwanted chemical reaction that could damage the battery permanently.”

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Bet most don’t know that.

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Conscious sedation failures.

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Ugh.

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Adapting to more expensive Apple products.

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Moore-era over. Devices last a lot longer so don’t swap as often.

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Venezuela’s Lessons for American and Bolivia.

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Another: angry voters can destroy a nation.

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“next larger collider would be able to falsify a huge amount of predictions. Indeed, if you count precisely, it would falsify infinitely many predictions”

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Building models on models with falsification tests.

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“I’m disturbed to see how ubiquitous the use of Google fonts is on the web”

Posted on January 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Worth reading. Google is the American web.

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Apple Still Charging Customers for iPhone 7 Microphone Defect

Posted on January 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The worst.

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“serving sizes on food labels will increase “

Posted on January 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Unintended consequence of honesty. Average American BMI is borderline obese now.

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Persistent effects of shutdown – loss of confidence among federal workers and contractors.

Posted on January 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A pro-recession factor. McConnell-Trump.

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Poptech and the problems of affordable housing.

Posted on January 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Americans want to own homes, but American homes are fundamentally expensive.

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Axolotl: “only be found in the canals of Lake Xochimilco, in the far south of Mexico City.”

Posted on January 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Regenerative power prob because metamorphosis stalls. Extinction would have lost these clues

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Screen Time shows old devices that no longer exist

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. 277 people “have this question too”. I think the long wiped ghost device is preventing control of the new device despite “Share Across Devices”. It only shows up here, not in iTunes or iCloud device list.

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Alleged bug with macOS metadata loss.

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Does anyone else see this?

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The Evolution of the English Alphabet – a poster

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. From pictographs to letters. -1650 to modern era.

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“China is not just cheap. It’s a place where, because it’s an authoritarian government, you can marshal 100,000 people to work all night for you,”

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Would be enormous decade long effort for US to build China scale manufacturing capability.

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The American legal foundations of white supremacy.

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The slavery war never ended.

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Exercise And Its Signaling: visceral fat, IL-6 and arthritis monoclonal

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It looks complicated.

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Gingivitis and infectious Alzheimer’s.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I was skeptical, but if Lowe is excited then it’s game on.

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“pre-modern” population, an outgroup to all of today’s modern people but maybe only 400,000 or 500,000 years diverged”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Their Y chromone lives among us.

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“The business case for women had been made,” Ms. Milligan said. “We were rocking it. And then #MeToo happened.”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Many men following Pence rules.

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Mac traveler guide by a road warrior.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Instapapered.

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How capable were early hominins of crossing water?

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Capable for a 10K at least.

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Tay Sachs – how it ended.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. World’s most successful eugenics program. Never described that way. History is ironic.

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Google’s version of Apple’s Screen Time.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hope they keep stealing from each other.

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Oracle vs Google goes to Supremes.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Oracle Evil is old and dark and oozy.

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Be the Best You Can Be: How did the story end?

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A year 15 update to a blog about special needs parenting.

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Why you must not give your Smart TV WiFi access.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. In time they won’t work without WiFi access.

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Vocal Fry: “the way a Kardashian speaks”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Doonesbury made me look this up. I stopped radio news post-Trump so completely missed this. (I’ve never watched much TV. Life it soo short for that.)

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Mojave and macOS: some old problems, some reasons for hope

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lousy: documentation. Mixed: quality control. Conclusion: I’ve moved my Sierra to Mojave migration forward from 4/19 to 2/19. (Aperture seems little worse than under Sierra.)

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“The Authy app is free for end users because, in essence, it’s paid for by businesses working with Twilio to ensure you stay protected”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Out of laziness I still use Google Authenticator. I should switch.

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Alois Brunner: remembering the Nazi who got away (2014).

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “The Mossad did target Brunner twice with letter bombs, causing him to lose an eye and three fingers”.

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How money laundering works.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Oil and drugs distort economy, and might have made an industrial grade money launderer President.

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Early success in curing sickle-cell disease.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Was much harder problem than thought in 80s. A rare but terrible disorder.

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“It is because of the use of dead drops and hierarchical structures that we call this kind of organization a Dropgang.”

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Modern illicit drug distribution.

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There are no good analgesics for cats

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Dogs can use some human meds.

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iOS 12.2 Downtime can vary by weekday.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Screen Time is Apple’s best software work in many years.

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When you die your family will lose your iCloud photos.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Until the court order anyway. I have taken extensive measures to avoid this. Apple needs to implement shared Photo Libraries. Note 2FA makes problem worse.

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Cognitive bias cheat sheet – Better Humans. 2016.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The post that is supposed to become a book.

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Ending the government shutdown.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Why didn’t this happen years ago?

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Germany’s coal conversion: “a focus on job creation through innovation.”

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. That won’t work.

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Justice Thomas wife is a hard right lunatic.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Scary people.

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Amazon Viners: the mega reviewers.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Overall a force for good I think.

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Snopes on Reagan’s presidential dementia.

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Reagan didn’t meet diagnostic criteria for dementia, but he had to have pre-dementia given course of his Alzheimer’s. Trump is probably at similar stage now.

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“syntactically erratic tweets at unholy times of day about things no one understood, weird sneering answers to unheard questions issued while a helicopter whined a few yards away”

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The Trump media scrum basically think he’s insane.

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“toil glamour”

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Medical residency can be like this for some, but mostly reminds me of the Cultural Revolution.

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“Mr. McConnell concluded that she would never cave and decided to come off the sidelines to try to end the standoff”

Posted on January 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. McConnell spins, and risks Trump’s revenge.

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Trump Rio Grande Wall show was a lie.

Posted on January 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’m honestly a little surprised how fake it was. He is shambolic.

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