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WeChat tests Apple’s resolve
Link. Wicked move. How can Apple not cave?
One of Earth’s oldest rocks came back to us via the moon.
Link. There must be a lot more like this.
“president’s response to the shutdown appeared to reinforce his pattern of treating workers as disposable.”
Link. As did his cabinet. They despise those who are not wealthy.
Bone cement doesn’t help osteoprotic spine fracture.
Link. “Australia’s health care system stopped paying for the procedures in 2010″
Venezuela primer.
Link. Voters made really bad choices. Sounds familiar.
Trump’s Venezuela pivot due to Rubio and unconnected to US government.
Link. Pure randomness. Nothing left to organize and manage Trump
E-scooter head injuries.
Link. Probably a bad idea.
The end nears – download 32-bitCheck
Link. Free. It is time for me to go from Sierra to Mojave
Amazon non-returnable: “Some health and personal care items”
Link. Shaker bottle was defective but Amazon doesn’t do returns for those.
“Cave divers have been known to flip a cattle trough and wedge it against a cave ceiling”
Link. Diving bell. Cave divers define nuttiness.
Minneapolis: “about 5 percent of trips are by bike, but cyclists take up more than 15 percent of fatal or serious crashes.”
Link. Drivers have iphone disease
“iPhone XS was the most unpopular new iPhone, being outsold by its Max counterpart by a “more than two-to-one ratio”.
Link. Wow. I’d much prefer XS to Max.
Passwords: never trust memory.
Link. I have multiple options if I forget 1Passwords PW.
RAM Doubler remembered.
Link. I used it. “RAM Doubler’s techniques are still in use”. Since Mavericks!
“Over the course of the week, my devices try to communicate with Facebook over 15,000 times compared to nearly 300,000 times for Amazon”
Link. I fear Amazon most of all.
Amazon and the new monopolist
Link. Their share price assumes monopoly.
“The axolotl genome is 10 times larger than the human genome”
Link. Native to 1 Mexican lake.
Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.3.
Link. I think not new
Podcast: Sickle Cell Disease Management & Complications
Link. This is awesome. So much richer than any textbook. I bow to the hematologists that serve these patients. You are the heroes.
Against a new collider.
Link. Sabine is a brave voice.
“Her 5-foot-3, 100-pound body was covered with more than 700 stitches from being bitten, gouged and clawed by her co-workers,”
Link. Eccentric.
Hagfish slime is awesome.
Link. Nanotech.
The shutdown and Trump “negotiations” – He assumes everyone else is thinking like he is.”
Link. He is perfectly willing to destroy the village.
Better Worlds: Verge hopey SF series.
Link. Publication schedule.
Hacking Construction Cranes
Link. “industrial remote controllers rely on proprietary RF protocols”. Decades old.
“we can’t conclude that marijuana legalization increases violence, and perhaps even there could be small negative effects”
Link. Sociology needs serious math skills.
Toxic Masculinity: “Suppressing emotions or masking distress”
Link. This is stupid. Large males must not express anger. It is lesson one.
MacBook Pros: “This is just not a good generation of Mac notebooks.”
Link. Root Cause Analysis needed.
Why the modern GOP: “in 1970, an American in a rural area was only 5 percent less likely to have a college degree as someone in an urban area, but by 2015 that gap had grown to 20 points.”
Link. Powerful economic forces interacting with America’s political rural bias and ethnicity skew.
“Within two years of Apple Pay’s launch, CurrentC failed”
Link. Autopsy.
“Mr. Trump’s approach to politics is so divisive, Dr. Leiserowitz said, that when he takes a strong stand on climate change and other issues, “he tends to drive a majority of the country in the opposite direction.”
Link. Trump de facto champion of carbon tax.
Reducing fatty liver in children by dropping sugar.
Link. Wow! Needs replication. Maybe sugar really is evil. Kids were NOT on low card diet.
Wet XS: Apple loses warranty fight
Link. Love consumer protection.
“sometimes, after people have lived with a transplanted liver for years, their bodies simply accept the organ.”
Link. Hope for inducing tolerance in autoimmune disorders?
“From African-Americans, I’ve only heard three names being discussed: that’s Booker, Harris and Biden”
Link. Booker and Biden the big two.
“… any understanding of the crisis of journalism in the twenty-first century has to begin by vanquishing the ghost of Spiro T. Agnew.”
Link. The historical context is long and complex.
“The federal government is one of the biggest employers of people with disabilities.”
Link. McConnell.
“At the core of Dr. He’s legal problems is informed consent”
Link. Most of my Twitter feed, including journalists I respect, completely missed the informed consent violation. He is likely to get the prison time he earned.
“majority of those with Down syndrome can work independently by age 20. Meanwhile, roughly half can read and write reasonably well by age 31. And, about a third live independently by that point.”
Link. Cognitively disadvantaged adults don’t stop improving at 20. Very little attention here.
“National Council on Severe Autism has issued position statements on hot-button issues like guardianship, crisis care, employment and what qualifies as a community-based setting”
Link. Guardianship is the big divider.
“border carbon adjustment system should be established”
Link. Carbon tariffs are mainstream now
“Most, perhaps all, of those broken Aliases have been migrated across from older Macs”
Link. Indirection is complicated
Retail “sales” do this: “Jack up the list price, and then offer the P.B.M.s a “discount.”
Link. We need government.
SIP and “Operation Not Permitted” in macOS Mojave
Link. I would not do this, but a useful command ref.
Checking for broken Aliases using Alifix
Link. Appreciated.
Fining Facebook is futile.
Link. Would need to be 10s of billions to be noticed. US doesn’t do that.
Medicare readmission policy has some side-effects.
Link. Why are they surprised?!
Behind and beyond Brexit: “fissiparous four-nation state cannot be governed without radical social and constitutional change.”
Link. Fabulous writing.
“meteorologists are showing up for work each day even though it’s been weeks since they received a paycheck.”
Link. Accuweather sort-of apology. Bigger point is Trump-McConnell should be removed from office.