Link. Really?! Conservation of energy isn’t what it used to be.
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The Great Sorting: “disappearance of “middle-skill jobs” in production but also in clerical, administrative and sales work.”
Link. For non-college income same, rural housing cheaper. WWC sorts to dying red rural America, college-class to urban blue America.
Rural colleges dying.
Link. Cognitive elite moving to cities.
Privatizing Veteran healthcare: another Koch goal achieved.
Link. VHA is a model for cost-efficient low luxury universal healthcare.
Authenticating USB-C.
Link. Mixed feelings.
BBEdit’s RegEx chapter.
Link. Me too. The manual is a treasure.
Robot government.
Link. Ominous implications for employment.
Trump on 1950s TV – the case for Fred.
Link. Probably coincidence, but maybe.
“President Trump often appears to be working on behalf or Vladimir Putin or under his influence. He seeks out communications with him hidden from the US government.”
Link. And yet daily life goes on. For now.
The evolution of the book has been weird.
Link. Steve Jobs screwed up, the judge screwed up, DRM screwed us … but the big surprise was on the publishing side.
Trump’s victims: “I may lose the farm, but I strongly feel we need some border security,” Mr. Nunnery said.”
Link. Cannon fodder.
R. Kelly explained.
Link. A predator only black americans could take down.
“The National Emergencies Act of 1976 is a sloppily written statute that, even though it was passed in response to Watergate, presupposes a level of good faith on the part of the President.”
Link. Parliamentary systems are better at managing malign and incompetent leaders.
Mac file alias redirection is quite complex.
Link. Seeking both performance and reliability.
Species aren’t what they used to be.
Link. Hybrids are common.
“fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada”
Link. Very cool article. I had no idea.
“fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada”
Link. Very cool article. I had no idea.
Ocean temp updates now track climate models.
Link. Models were right, measurements less so. No escape from warming predictions.
MMT explained.
Link. The Laffler Curve of the Left.
TV ads to be personalized.
Link. Like net ads. Hell is coming.
Google Search activity cards.
Link.
Trump, Bezos, and the Enquirer.
Link. Will Bezos be chastised?
Apple must give us more control over the phone.
Link. At least give us a phone-only DND option.
China goes after Twitter users.
Link. How much can Xi squeeze?
“word changes in corporate reports still appear to be signaling subsequent changes in stock prices and few, if any people, have noticed”
Link. Money lying on the sidewalk?
How to drive in winter.
Link. Nothing I didn’t know well.
Finder bug in Mojave 10.14.2 with broken aliases
Link. Apple bug reporting is via Twitter
The wellness cult: “makes something which should be fun – good living – into a miserable, competitive, pseudoscientific morass”
Link. CrossFit is good cult. Detox and Paltrow are bad cult.
Shock: 65+ easily fooled by fake news.
Link. Pre-dementia is widespread by 65. Why retirement won’t shift much.
“I believe that Apple will eventually phase out the Apple TV”
Link. Like AirPort.
“Siri shortcuts reliability, like Siri overall, is so bad that I can’t rely on it.”
Link. Why can’t Apple fix Siri?
Weird iPhone bug: misdialing due to invisible country code confusion
Link. Clever debugging
China personal tech 2019.
Link. The future.
“Windows 10 is just a veneer on top of Windows XP. I’d much rather just have the old XP interface.”
Link. It is painful.
Fermi paradox update: “human beings were put on Earth by some creator God for His own inscrutable purposes, and the rest of the universe is merely background scenery.”
Link. First time I’ve seen the theological resolution made explicitly. Is identical to Simulation resolution. The author misunderstands paradox though.
Millennials: “too many are trying to become professors”
Link. So many science students, so little demand for scientists. STEMI my ass.
State of the tech future.
Link. Mostly agree.
CES’s 2019 Tech Trends
Link. Only summary we need.
“China was now a fully mature market and lengthening refresh cycles for smartphones would be the new normal.”
Link.
Armillaria mega-fungus doesn’t mutate much.
Link. Curious biology.
Huawei CFO charges get more details
Link. Big accusations
The iOS Menu: “they’ve had their chance to show us a better way and haven’t delivered. So they may as well reinvent the wheel.”
Link. And a mouse for iPad
T-mobile caught selling phone location data.
Link. As bad as the rest. Only regulation can help.
Ethnic variation in Alzheimer’s Tau levels.
Link. Might be clue to disease process.
Low end Face ID is a scam.
Link. Not surprising.
Every millennial cliche in one place.
Link. For me a helpful guide.
“Undiagnosed Diseases Network”
Link. Wonderful project.
“ratings of attractiveness were around 1000 times more sensitive to salary for females rating males, compared to males rating females”
Link. Watch business explained.
Memory can’t record high stress events.
Link. Not made that way.
Extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust.
Link. Famous from the Wilder books and American history, suddenly and mysteriously extinct around 1900.