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Revolut – site for sending money abroad at low cost
Link. New to US market.
Anti-vaxxers want another word.
Link. “DangerousFools& BadParents” a bit clumsy.
Did you follow Apple’s two-factor authentication advice to provide a friend’s phone number for SMS authentication?
Link. Apple 2FA combines best features of data loss and insecurity.
Remember to remove a device from your Apple ID account list if it is sold or wiped
Link. I don’t think this happens automatically when one wipes a phone.
Sending money from US to Canada: “Write a check and post it.”
Link. Been same answer for decades. Every other option is expensive.
A lesson from RBG — 85 is the end.
Link. Yes. Buffett is 88. He’s a genetic fluke, but only by 5y or so.
Mac mini: “It’s the Mac you buy when you know you need to buy a Mac… and you’ve already ruled out all the other systems Apple has on offer.”
Link. Great closer. True.
Personal wikis fade.
Link. I feared the data lock. I think one could build one that degraded fracefully into a collection of text files (simplenote could do this)
Post-REST: “… I saw generation after generation of RPC frameworks fail miserably”
Link. Computer science has zombies too.
China has “disappointing academic performance among boys”
Link. Men sense the shape of the future.
Qantum speed limit of energy dissipation related to Planck constant.
Link. Experiments rock. Also, kudos University of Sherbrooke! That is a little known college.
Lowe demolishes a silly SciAm essay on how the Valley will fix stupid biologists.
Link. Something may come of this, but the arrogance is astounding.
Traps of machine learning models: chemistry example
Link. Remember how linear regressions can mislead?
“government had blocked 11.14 million people from flights and 4.25 million from taking high-speed train trips.”
Link. How to build a rebellion.
“Definers employees distributed anti-Apple research to reporters and would not say who was paying for it.”
Link. GOP media gets Definers stories. Android-Facebook
Russian Spy Head Dead at 63.
Link. Russians die young, is probably not poison. Still, I’d want testing.
Proud boys leader bails on white nationalists to avoid deportation.
Link. Green card holder.
Facebook lies about Soros: “assertion that Soros funded the “Freedom from Facebook” campaign is false and a factual distortion of unrelated funding”
Link. Sandberg must go.
iPad 128GB model $329.
Link. Apple’s only current iOS device that is a good value.
Adjust flashlight brightness on iPhone and iPad
Link. 3D/long touch. I forgot
iPad Pro lacks smart cover
Link. Alternative almost twice the price. Margins
In Japan 8 favored over XR.
Link. Despite Apple’s rapacious pricing on 8.
How to Make & Use Custom iOS Ringtones
Link. I thought we could use iCloud?
Treating Down-like syndrome in mouse model.
Link. Goalis to slow Downs AD-like dementia
The Human Dx project.
Link. My wife is a fan of the app. I just started. Recapitulates books of the late 70s
Human Dx: physician diagnostic collaboration tool.
Link. I assume there is Android version too.
Twilight ocean: “area so dense with life that people once thought it was the seafloor”
Link. Unexplored.
Amazon.com is a Horrible Website
Link. It was good 15y ago.
“Even less discoverable is the shortcut to extend the selection.”
Link. What about selection in read mode?
John Dean on Trump weaponizing JD “A Level That Richard Nixon Never Went To”
Link. Only a weakling wouldn’t weaponize.
Trump’s on Saudi Arabia with explanations.
Link. Points for honesty. Shorter: he’d do same if he could.
Female genital mutilation not federal law?
Link. That is weird. Going to SCOTUS eventually.
Squarespace vs. WordPress.
Link. Squarespace is a hard lockin.
LinkedIn Profile Tips
Link. Age-dropping photo mods for the Olds.
Take 30 years off your muscles.
Link. My goal is to be bicycling (3 wheels) and Nordic skiing into my 80s. Then die.
“doesn’t seem possible to get a Mac with a T2 chip to start up from an unencrypted internal drive”
Link. Impttant details. Undoumented?
22% US solid waste is demolished homes.
Link.
How Long Can People Live?
Link. 85 basically. Beyond that it gets really ugly. “senolytics” interesting in mice.
Transplanted Senescent Cells Induce an Osteoarthritis-Like Condition in Mice.
Link. OA is not understood. It is probably many different things unhelpfully conflated.
Alzheimer’s research a barren desert of hopelessness.
Link. Animal models unpersuasive.
11 Things We’d Really Like to Know – The New York Times.
Link. Some interesting, but the physics one was misplaced. String theory is looking very dead.
“ProtonVPN Basic ranges in price from free to $24 a month”
Link. Modern VPN options are complex balance between performance, cost, and security.
Once we walked with alien kin.
Link. Lions, tigers, leopards and more. But of hominids only one.
APFS in 2018.
Link. Apple is weirdly silent.
Apep is a galactic gun that probably won’t kill us
Link. We thought we were burster free.
Disorder and Order: protein tails show evolution at its whackiest.
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“iPad platform is nowhere near as far along after 8 years as the Mac was a generation ago”
Link. Still not a Mac alternative
Facebook at War – with everyone.
Link. Blood in the short seller waters.
The harms of sitting were overstated.
Link. Not a surprise.