Link. Trump is as cheap as he is crooked.
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Fed rate hike – it’s about the asset bubbles.
Link. Japan.
A car story from Japan’s glory years.
Link. I’m not a car guy, but I do remember those years. Crazy days in Japan.
The WSJ manages to disappoint Krugman.
Link. Murdoch is the Enemy.
Der Spiegel journalist made up story about Fergus Falls MN.
Link. Wow. These are not subtle mistakes. He made it up. Also, I’ve been a visitor-tourist there.
“bending of the 2018 iPad Pros is a result of the manufacturing process and that they do not consider it a defect.”
Link. New leadership would be interesting
“most Latinos who were born abroad say they are worried about deportations, but the majority of Latinos who were born in the United States are not.”
Link. Tribes are complex
“macOS has a signature problem”
Link. No joke. It’s amazing macOS gets out of bed in the morning
Google Intentionally Favoring Chrome, Hurting Edge?
Link. Tsai surveys both sides
“Apple Pay for the Web is not deployed as widely as I’d hoped, and in my experience it almost never works.”
Link. Lots of misfires
“I had no idea how immoral Trump actually is.”
Link. It is unusual to have no redeeming features.
“immigrants will soon be more important to population gains than the so-called natural increase”
Link. Aging nation.
What personal web sites looked like in the late 90s.
Link. Another world.
We’re #2.
Link. Good time to do trade war with EU.
Paul Ryan shows how powerful craft their mythos.
Link. I’ve seen this in senior execs. Mixture of lies, omissions, and shadings paints glorious story.
Hacking 2FA tokens by phishing and victim manipulation.
Link. Trick user into entering the token value into a web form — in addition to credentials.
Noting that the Trump Foundation was a fraud.
Link. In other presidencies this would be news. Also Trump’s accusations are all admissions of things he is doing or would do if he could.
Han Solo is the Galaxy’s Goodest Dog.
Link. I’m sold.
Google’s Diabetic Retinopathy Models
Link. In the absence of a gold standard how do we know this isn’t just increasing sensitivity?
Assume you are compromised – corporate and personal alike
Link. For years Google security has behaved as though your password is not secret.
“European Union had been warned, repeatedly, that its aging communications system was highly vulnerable to hacking”
Link. Would have been better off using gmail.
“Facebook got even more data like contacts from the partners, which helped it build out functions like its People You May Know tool”
Link. Many had wondered how Facebook obtained “people you may know” content. EU’s privacy and data laws needed. Also a Facebook-like nonprofit.
How to dispose of a Mac.
Link. Similar to iOS device disposal. Great list.
Apple Music sending push notifications for Echo support
Link. Feel the hate.
Apple sending push notifications for Carpool Karaoke.
Link. The transformation is complete.
Facebook shared data with tech companies by claiming they were part of Facebook.
Link. It ain’t going to change.
The Future of Work: Placebo, by Charles Yu
Link. I liked this one.
8 Sci-Fi Writers Imagine work.
Link. Optimistic takes by contract.
Why it’s so hard to measure Russian influence.
Link. Techniques perfected at home over decades is use.
“Foreigners increasingly talk about Britain in the way they would talk about an admired relative who has gone stark raving bonkers”
Link. Would love a measure of US v UK bonkerness.
Verizon has Apple 6s sort of $120.
Link. No contract but odd pay back scheme, $380 up front. Still a great phone AND it has a headphone jack.
Why are quantum amplitudes complex?
Link. Essay: relate to Euler’s identity.
“Q# (Q-sharp) is a domain-specific programming language used for expressing quantum algorithms”
Link. Impressive on a resume.
“In Georgia, the incarceration rate for black males has declined by thirty per cent over the past eight years”
Link. GOP governor.
Black and Blue Lives Matter powered by Russia to elect Trump.
Link. Russia is good at this.
Guessing at NFL CTE prevalence
Link. Human brains oddly fragile.
Contagious amyloid.
Link. Damn. Also – “living on the edge when it comes to protein stability”. Life is unstable.
Disk Utility Mojave and AFS SSD “secure erase”.
Link. Weird! Bottom line – overwriting doesn’t work
Being touristed: dissent and control decades after China Spring.
Link. “Mao was a chaos guy, whereas Xi is a control guy.”
In 2019 27 Petabytes of data will show a black hole event horizon.
Link. Biggish data.
China’s Final Solution takes shape.
Link. Now forced labor. Next check DNA on organ supplies.
“Mojave is no bed of roses, but neither is it the bed of nettles which High Sierra most definitely was.”
Link. I skipped HS. Planning on Mojave in spring.
Republicans Who Could Run Against Trump.
Link. More options than we think.
How to converse – lessons from AI development.
Link. It’s funny, but its damned good. Basis of a curriculum for some on spectrum. Better than our son’s speech 00s therapy.
Google edges closer to the accessibility realm that cannot be spoken of – cognitive disabilities
Link. Apple won’t touch it. Might be contagious.
“WizPhone is the first feature phone made by Indonesians that will have the Google Assistant built in and it will retail at less than $10″
Link. Watch this carefully.
“free online and offline courses through Google Digital Garage across 64 countries.”
Link. I’m having more trouble knowing everything.
Google Maps multimodal transit adds Lime – in some US cities
Link. Not MPLS yet
Obit retells a forgotten survival story.
Link. Mr Flores was not a wise pilot, but he was quite good at survival. As was she. Insane they survived the crash.
China’s foreign hostages.
Link. Will State department post a travel warning?