Link. Rural voters chose the GOP. The GOP opposes their interests.
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China Reverses Ban on Rhino and Tiger Parts
Link. Xi promotes non-science of Chinese traditional medicine.
Roots of 2018 alt-right anti-semitism: “The Culture of Critique”
Link. I thank those who excavate the mire. EvPsych component of course.
“college graduates make more than 50% more than their counterparts with who didn’t earn a degree, much of that disparity is driven by a drop in the value of a high school diploma”
Link. College is overpriced.
“Trump’s administration is the most corrupt since at least Warren Harding’s, of 1920s Teapot Dome fame”
Link. NYT compiles a reference list.
Mojave “extensive but ragged patchwork of update methods is that there is no central log or registry in which all installed updates are recorded.”
Link. Constant obscure updates.
Remember iBeacons?
Link. Amazon happened.
“GoDaddy confirmed to Gizmodo that it has given Gab 24 hours to find a new registrar domain”
Link. We are curious to see who will take them
“doctors have the highest suicide rate of any profession in the world.”
Link. I think this is long-standing though, not a new response to corporate medicine.
The Fed since 1960: a brief history.
Link. A pragmatic and fair review.
How can journalism respond to GOP 2018?
Link. Early in Trump era an Italian journalist wrote about Berlusconi. I need to dig that up.
Ondine and her curse: art and history
Link. I knew the medical disorder, but not the story.
Neutrinos: “For reasons we don’t understand, the weak force plays favourites with this handedness.”
Link. The great light hope.
An Elgato T2 Hub and USB 3 SSD work pretty well.
Link. Just occurred to me that it’s been 3 years of mostly trouble free performance. T3 is nice in theory, but really T2 was probably enough.
Apple Pay has no privacy advantages over using a credit card.
Link. Apple doesn’t get my information, but the vendor does. I’d prefer protection from the vendor to protection from Apple.
Female birth canal varies randomly around a population mean.
Link. This is weird. Humans are lousy at birthing, why not more selection pressure on pelvis?
“A CBD coffee may only have five milligrams in it. In order to treat anxiety, we know you need around 300 milligrams.”
Link. Another crazy moment in America. In theory won’t show on urine drug test
Immunotherapy may favor local over systemic chemotherapy.
Link. Logic and animal models are often wrong in medicine, but watch this space.
Microgravity alters brain fluid volumes.
Link. Persists for a time.
XR: “two most common repairs easier than almost any Android counterpart.”
Link. Should still be useable in 2023.
“Shortcuts’s real power, much of which lies in its Magic Variables. Which I hate.”
Link. Ugh. Mistakes of AppleScript repeated.
“sheets.new” creates a new gSuite sheet.
Link. Useful perversion of domain name.
“the “Netflix way” is about firing anyone who might not qualify as the best of the best”
Link. Lovely place.
“influential dermatology leaders are being recruited to work for and promote dermatology practices backed by private-equity firms.”
Link. Private equity is taking over dermatology, compromised leaders squash a research paper.
“He should have signed up for Medicare Part B three years earlier when he turned 65.”
Link. 18, 21, 65 are the big 3.
Best illusions 2018.
Link. Headache inducing. Mild nausea/vertigo from 1st one.
“hundreds of teeth inside the walls of some dentists’ office”
Link. A weird 20th cent ritual?
Trump inspires China-Japan alliance.
Link. Similar NK/SK. Trump’s Nobel pending.
The economic inefficiencies of powerful people.
Link. Aristocrats were historically horrible. Side-effect of winner-take-all.
Why the i8 is the only good iPhone
Link. I don’t disagree.
“Netflix has built its business on a mountain of junk-rated debt.”
Link. In the 90s it was crazy share price.
Silicon Valley Nannies Are Phone Cops for Kids
Link. Being a SV nanny sounds hellish
SV elite keeping screens from kids
Link. But not from teens. Apple’s controls still suck — need in iCloud.
Knee osteoarthritis cartilage regeneration: a Japanese approach.
Link. Intetesting view of novel approaches.
“Hydroxychloroquine, Chloroquine Use for CTD Not Linked to Alzheimer Disease Risk”
Link. There are theoretical reasons to worry. Study did not test if HCQ is protective.
HIV 2018: “better than having diabetes”.
Link. I remember “HTLV-III” and the “Haitian disease”. This is stunning for Olds. Anyone can listen. I skip the first few minutes of these podcasts though.
Google deprecates www prefix for blogspot URLs
Link. Perhaps because cert cost? Reminds us www is going away.
All the times Trump has called for violence
Link. Old thug.
“DataVaults are not accessible to the user or regular apps, even if you give them Full Disk Access. So their contents are not backed up and can’t be cloned.”
Link. Mojave complexity.
Andy Rubin: ‘Being Owned Is Kinda Like You Are My Property, and I Can Loan You to Other People’
Link. Extreme wealth isn’t always good for people.
ActBlue has transformed Dem donations
Link. My modest Great Slate donation went via ActBlue and ApplePay
swappa.com: best place to buy used iPhone?
Link. You want a lousy battery life so you know it doesn’t have a crap 3rd party battery.
“donating to The Great Slate is one of the most effective ways you can make a difference today.”
Link. Geeks for democracy.
Apple Music’s dismal support for Classical.
Link. Power comes with obligations.
Repairing macOS permissions diagrammed.
Link. Reference this.
Access controls in Mojave
Link. ACLs abandoned. Scary complexity
Megyn Kelly: “Why is anyone surprised by this?”
Link. Her ugliness wasn’t an act.
“If they are very worried about iPhones being tapped, they can use Huawei,” China spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
Link. Hua wins.
“Trump, who has become increasingly irritated by the negative news coverage, sources say, and blames the Saudis for making him look bad.”
Link.
“Apple has dramatically increased the base price of an iPhone.”
Link. Depressing