Link. Slyly slipped “paternalistic” in with the obvious baddies. There is an important debate to be had about paternalism in social programs. It has its place.
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DeLong 2012: Why do we accept the 2nd gilded age?
Link. “I throw up my hands and say that my economic historian training betrays me.” The people sorted to bottom differ?
Mueller’s Time in the Vietnam War.
Link. The anti-Trump.
Amazon Prime Magazines – includes Harpers, New Yorker …
Link. “Every month we choose a selection of top magazine issues for you to borrow as part of your Prime membership.” Read them on Kindle. Can have up to 10 out a time.
How the US government transitions. (And, of course, how Trump damaged it)
Link. There are a lot of invisible people who keep civilization running. They deserve a yearly moment of silence.
Dystopian Apple: living off the lock-in.
Link. Corporate fentanyl. Cook can’t resist.
Science is the hero, not the scientist.
Link. The traits that make great achievements often make unpleasant people.
“nearly all” of the weapons systems in the Pentagon’s $1.7 trillion dollar purchasing pipeline have glaring cybersecurity holes.”
Link. Similar to medical devices for similar reasons
US cyber defense and 2018 vote
Link. Russia told manipulating Facebook fair game, hacking polls trigger grave retaliation. So if Ukraine wanted to hurt Russia …
How did billionaire-backed ballot measures fare?
Link. Less right than I guessed
2018 exercise science review.
Link. Divert your cable TV money to a personal trainer and group exercise.
Mac migration: “admin user account during setup, use the same username, both long and short, and the same password as on your old MBA”
Link. Helps explain why iPad still single-user.
TV complexity and the last days of the DVD.
Link. A solution to piracy was found.
“more white than Christian”: black evangelical resistance.
Link. Jimmy Carter similar critique.
“A 2017 Marist poll of 1,074 adults found that 68 percent of them who’d made a resolution had kept it.”
Link. Useful if done with care.
“Minnesota’s 68 percent rate of working people is the highest of any state”
Link. Allegedly two openings for every unemployed adult
“Individuals with DS have a lifetime risk for dementia in excess of 90%”
Link. Historically excluded from AD trials.
HCQ retinopathy “clinical course resembling that of genetic dystrophies.”
Link. Continued progression long after stop medicine.
Intensive parenting
Link. Fits us. What’s omitted here is that it’s fun for parents.
“average person could relapse four or five times over eight years to achieve a single year of sobriety”
Link. Rule of thumb.
Trump endorses another low class scammer.
Link. Amway a bit higher class. “Americans don’t grasp about our current national situation is just how tacky and demented the corrupt individuals surrounding the current president are.”
Economist is bearish on China.
Link. Makes valiant effort not to openly weep about Trump.
How to Rebuild Thumbnails in a Photos Library.
Link. Photos.app is Apple’s greatest disappointment.
“tweets by pundits like Ann Coulter, who has used the medium deftly to influence him”
Link. Who is laughing at Ann Coulter now? Not me, oh no, not me.
“co-president of the Women’s March … Mallory has called Mr. Farrakhan “the GOAT,” or “greatest of all time,” on social media.”
Link. Skip it.
A primer on why Trump can’t have the military build a Wall.
Link. I learned things here. Excellent work.
“the president quickly capitulated by pledging to withdraw, shocking both Bolton and Erdogan”
Link. Insane? Demented? Both?
Humans lost their lazy genes – why we need crazy amounts of exercise.
Link. Theory that, over 500Ky, lack of utility caused humans to lose genes that allow other apes to be safely sedentary. Sharks and gill muscle analog.
Screen Time and iOS 12 parental controls.
Link. Best attempt at this big, complex, topic. Omitted remote parental controls
“He spends ever more time in front of a television, often retreating to his residence out of concern that he is being watched too closely.”
Link. Cracking up.
Amazon Prime’s Two-Day Delivery Scam.
Link. Prime is now 2-5 days; non-prime is 5-10 days.
“We literally broke most of the actual world and almost the entire damn Internet so that a crappy ad for something you’re probably not buying could follow you around the web”
Link. Tax externalities.
Apple share price craters due to killing Aperture
Link. Ok, I made that up. Probably not i8 pricing either. But I’ll take my vengeance where I can.
You can now delete an Apple ID.
Link. This is newish. Two years ago you couldn’t. Thank the EU?
“those with a cancer diagnosis had more than five times the risk of heart attack or stroke compared with those without a cancer diagnosis.”
Link. REALLY hard to control for environment here, but might change statin prescribing.
“Russia can just relax and watch and root for Trump, which Putin does at every TV appearance.”
Link. I love Russia’s sardonic humor. Really. They find Trump as amazing as we do.
Lung cancer lobectomy for RBS.
Link. I read she never smoked, except weed in ‘70s. So unusual.
Russian midterm attacks blunted.
Link. Our defenses worked, not least public more skeptical. Incidentally, we are at war with Russia and it’s GOP allies.
Schwarzschild’s Cat
Link. Extra clever
“an anomaly in the way Ultima Thule is reflecting incoming light”
Link. Such a fun movie line. In the real world this adventure is almost incomprehensible. How can we do this and Trump at the same time?
“an expensive high-end performance bicycle is always a terrible value, even if it’s completely indestructible”
Link. A merely decent bike lasts longer than we do.
Cipro doubles baseline risk aortic aneurysm: “induce degradation of collagen and other structural components”
Link. Same way increases tendon rupture. Still low risk AA, but fluoroquinolones are now 2nd line antibiotics.
Kids persuading parents by PowerPoint.
Link. The parents are proud, amused, reasonable.
“Ms. Coulter predicted that Mr. Trump either would not serve out his term or would fail to get re-elected; he unfollowed her on Twitter”
Link. America is now led by Ann Coulter.
GOP home: “in Appalachia and the South, where many people now get more than a third of their income from the government.”
Link. Huge disability payouts. Hypocrisy aside, the T-base is genuinely disabled in the cognitive economy of 2018. That’s hard to admit, denial is understandable.
Trump has nothing to lose from a government shutdown.
Link. And it’s a great distraction. Beats invading China I guess. Blame GOP voters.
Drones: “how long they can remain legal.”
Link. Unlicensed drones will be illegal within the year.
“This is what Apple wants its brand to stand for? A premium product that is bent right out of the box?”
Link. I think their iPhone 8 pricing is an even bigger blunder.
EagleFiler can import Evernote data.
Link. Makes Evernote less risky to try.
You can change your Apple ID email address.
Link. And you can change to me.com addresses. One day maybe we can consolidate our redundant Apple IDs.