Link. Only the crudest measures are caught, but this is a start.
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Location trackers: “someone may search online for healthy recipes, but GroundTruth can see that the person often eats at fast-food restaurants.”
Link. How weather apps make money.
Quantum interpretations: Give up on universality or accept many worlds.
Link. Or find new interpretation.
Black hole computation: volume and “complexity”
Link. We need to build some black holes.
He Jankui: “a complete hack job”
Link. A moral idiot who deserves to visit prison.
“neurons modifying their own genomic sequences (and the rate and degree of that modification) in response to environmental stimuli”
Link. It’s turtles all the way down.
Protein folding prediction: state of the art.
Link. The hardest problem.
“It’s a constant feature of drug development that things look much better in the earlier trials than the later ones.”
Link. Remember this. Failure is the expected outcome.
Facebook chatbots: what they do.
Link. Understand them.
Seeking justice for a murdered brother.
Link. 30 years ago. A million dollars may loosen a tongue.
Field Tested Cycling Gifts
Link. I trust this guy.
“Mojave’s handling of Rich Text in Dark Mode is now broken in several places.”
Link. Suspicion falls on interns.
“we will see a train wreck in the farm economic cycle, albeit one unfolding in very slow motion”
Link. Trumponomics only the latest factor.
“Gutenberg is NOT a happy camper on the Mac”
Link. I’ll give it a year to settle in. On classic until then.
Kanopy: library based classic movie streaming.
Link. Free.
Cuba Will Allow Full Internet Access on Phones.
Link. Cuba quietly moves on.
In German “shitstorm” is not vulgar.
Link.
Housing: “All we do know is that prices have been roaring higher at a speed rarely seen in American history.”
Link. Beyond the last peak.
Remote Screen Time in iOS 12 – a breakthrough in Explorer support.
Link. If Apple builds on this they can really help out vulnerable adults. They just need to fix the age problem.
Open access: Elsevier vs UC.
Link. “papers would no longer be able to appear in high-profile journals such as Science and Nature or Elsevier’s Cell and Lancet unless their business models changed drastically”
Medieval skeleton: “35 years old when he died, but his bones revealed that he probably led a painful life because of stiffness in his joints caused by osteoarthritis”
Link. The early OA is curious. I don’t think we understand this very well.
“Dr. Schwartz received an accurate diagnosis and coped with seven years of uncertainty”
Link. I much prefer this framing to the “battled” cliché. It’s unusual enough I wonder if the family requested it.
“dreaming may have originated with a common ancestor of mammals, birds and lizards”
Link. Core function.
Tortoise longevity genes: multiple copies, optimizations
Link. Redundancy is key.
Exploring a BC cave.
Link. Canada has lots of remoteness. Excellent photo and video in this short NYT article.
Google coding giants: “he started writing a data-collection program for epidemiologists called Epi Info;”
Link. I laughed there. I remember Epi Info, and that it was done by a teen prodigy. Now I know what happened next.
WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg, and MarsEdit
Link. For now MarsEdit endures. I use it.
Google Fi on iPhone vs T-mobile on iPhone.
Link. Terrific in depth comparison. Compare Ting.
“U.S. into the world’s largest petroleum producer, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia”
Link. Permian basin oil immense. What a wild century we’ve had.
“Trump and members of his inner circle were in more or less constant contact with a long list of Russian government officials, intermediaries, intelligence officials and businessmen”
Link. That much we know. l
“Electron is without question a scourge.”
Link. I didn’t Windows was infected.
Another Neti pot amoeba report.
Link. It is a PITA to use boiled water. Probably more practical to buy filtered water, but it will be cold then. Ugh.
What has changed in the Mojave 10.14.2 update?
Link. Apple’s documentation is a bit brief
“Many Apple product prices are rising faster than inflation — faster, even, than the price of prescription drugs or going to college”
Link. The 2019 iPhone 8 pricing is egregious.
$1000 Chromebooks.
Link. Another thing that defies sanity.
GOP doubles down on vote suppression.
Link. No illusions left.
Details of Permian extinction: warming and ocean oxygen.
Link. We are increasing CO2 faster than this, but total accumulation will be much less.
Weekly Standard falls to power of Trump.
Link. There can be no skeptics in the GOP. Join Trump or go Dem.
Tumblr: “most faithful users have remained loyal to the platform for the pornography”
Link. Culture is changing in unexpected ways.
The fall of lean in.
Link. Corporate power is rarely compatible with goodness.
The fall of lean in.
Link. Corporate power is rarely compatible with goodness.
“a four-day Mediterranean cruise with hundreds of crypto-crazed investors and evangelists”
Link. I would enjoy this. I’ve always had an odd affection for cultists.
“worldwide many Kubernetes clusters having their Pods hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies”
Link. People who worry about security don’t get promoted for big wins.
Why Trump’s Trade stupidity is so dangerous – he has real executive power.
Link. Blame his voters.
The anti-helmet cyclist again.
Link. I can see skipping helmet for urban cycling, but mountain biking?! Eben has no idea how hard it would be to get data.
Fake Facebook Account Had Role Building Immigrant Caravan
Link. Timing was weird
CO2 taxes and rebellion of the underclass.
Link. Their world keeps getting lousier.
Elizabeth Warren’s peculiar doom.
Link. Her supporters may be too brittle.
Accepting Alzheimer’s.
Link. Not the only person to do a clinical trial to help future strangers.
Transplants in US are for the wealthy.
Link. Steve Jobs was more egregious, but not alone. Has gotten little attention.