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The end of Canadian auto making.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I recall a surprisingly large and vital small manufacturing sector near Montreal. Would be good to see numbers.

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North Carolina – looks like real voter fraud. By GOP.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Maybe not enough to change results

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Senators Call for Jail, Fines After Marriott Data Breach.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. “offer useless credit monitoring to the millions of Americans”. Combine severe fines with rewards to whistleblowers to expose breaches.

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Ebola outbreak smolders on. Trump a factor.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. The US is good at this and Trump has blocked our best and bravest. Because he is a sniveling blot of cowardly despicableness.

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Google Hangouts faces doom.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Voice may outlast its replacement.

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Mephistophele’s people fear hand of Satan.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. They made their choice. The rest is paperwork.

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“Researchers working in climate change do not receive atypically large paychecks, nor do they strike it rich from grants.”

Posted on November 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. NYT somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to GOP nuttiness.

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China’s IP theft program accelerates.

Posted on November 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Corporations seem unable to secure networks. Certainly US government cannot.

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A note on breast reconstruction

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Its a specialized surgery way outside my own medical domain, so some insights for me.

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WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ.

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I’m staying on classic of course.

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Trump is bad for the gun industry.

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Karma is rare in life.

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Dust in iMac displays: the lawsuit

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Hit my old iMac. Hope they win.

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“iPad Pro notably supports USB-C, but does not support Thunderbolt 3”

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jgordon

Link. T3 is not looking so good just now.

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He Jiankui is a “moral idiot”

Posted on November 28, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Great summary.

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Spoofing MAC ID to get browserless devices on portal paged wifi

Posted on November 28, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Old school

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Amazon added unwanted items into baby registries.

Posted on November 28, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Caveat emptor.

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GM problems explained.

Posted on November 28, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I don’t entirely agree. They didn’t make the vehicles I wanted. I don’t love Subaru…

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Migrating formbold to new Mac: first of series

Posted on November 28, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Was easier in classic I think.

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MSP Trails – Twin Cities Bike, Ski and Skate: Bunker Hills (Anoka County) has a skijoring trail

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Most dogs love this.

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“WorkFit-TX is the best sit-stand converter I’ve seen so far.”

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. $600. Ergotron

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“When insects first appeared some 400 million years ago, they were deaf”

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Ears developed at least 20 times.

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Mojave very slow on spinning disks.

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Optimized for APFS, but even then there are issue.

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Books and Calendars in Photos for Mac

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Extensions used

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Airlines use ‘exploitative’ algorithm that splits up families on flights unless they pay more for seat selection?

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Alleged. Seems like them though

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AI malware.

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Neuromancer published 1984.

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Evolution in action: the bike, trail, thrill spiral

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Exactly. Just stop it.

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Eugenics moves further into IVF.

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Inevitable.

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Montreal: “death of the fire-cooked bagel”

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. They really are superior.

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“Trump, back on the campaign trail”

Posted on November 27, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Nobody wants him governing.

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Dr He is China’s Mengele.

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. And Harvard geneticist George Church is about to face a shit storm. No western journal can publish this.

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The Death of Family Medicine (Canadian edition)

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Canada is rapidly moving to US model.

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Obesity: healthy diet and *extreme* exercise can work

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I’ve seen several men and women do this. Weight loss studies only evaluate puny exercise.

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Serial killer: “He said God made him this way, so why should he ask for forgiveness?”

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Story of a serial killer, for once not white. Asks the big question.

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Cars for (wealthy) teens: “signals for lane departures and approaching vehicles and self-braking in an impending crash”

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Really, nobody should drive. At least 3/4 of drivers are incompetent.

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Mojave’s Dynamic Desktop Tech.

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Wish they’d apply that talent to Photos.app.

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Rise of the MegaCorp.

Posted on November 26, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Acquisitions perhaps more important than mergers, at least in tech.

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Why “see something say something” is insane.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I’m white guy with Korean daughter. Surprisingly I never had this happen to me. I carried records when we traveled.

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Cyber 9/11 fail: terrorists are rare and generally stupid

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Nation states are another matter. Ex: Ukraine

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“we need to treat attacks on common political knowledge by insiders as being just as threatening as the same attacks by foreigners.”

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Ban the GOP? How does that work?

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Robotic Process Automation is new version of Windows Macro Recorder.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. UI scripting MSFT office. Solves a problem apparently

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Dickens reborn – South Korean edition.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. SK culture problem.

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Trumpista on climate report: “do it on a day when nobody cares, and hope it gets swept away by the next day’s news.”

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. While he twiddled his mustache.

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“executive branch that seems determined to conduct trade policy based on a level of ignorance not seen at this level for 150 years”

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. A primer on trade.

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The Google Earth Earth View library — provides images for extension

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Funny domain … withgoogle.com.

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Earth View: Chrome extension shows Google Earth images (random?)

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Both amazing and amazingly distracting. Good thing Earth takes so long to load, otherwise I’d be going there all day.

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Want/need/wear/read gifting strategy.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Annoyingly cloyingly useful. Need/wear could be condensed to need for the cheap-3 approach.

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Comcast again increases its cost of cable services.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. We dropped cable in 1994. Invest that money in S&P index fund instead.

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Predicting the timing of peak oil – Wikipedia.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Still being updated but not many graphs after 2012 or so.

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How to think about having surgery where you can’t sue

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. The facility had good online reviews. Terrible things happen in surgery everywhere, but regulatory and legal structures have value.

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The upside of GOP’s massive deficit spending

Posted on November 25, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Exploring new territory.

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