Link. Diabolical. Apple should be liable for fees.
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Harvard is looking pretty bad
Link. Weak defense of their admissions policies.
WhatsApp problem – many like to watch the world burn.
Link. Humans kind of suck.
Mountain bike fads 2019.
Link. Plus tires already passé?! WTF.
“This can make the most terminal cassette-flossing, tan-line-obsessed, Rapha-swaddled roadie seem like a stoner on a beach cruiser in comparison.”
Link. Great sentence.
China’s monster prison camps.
Link. “Xinjiang has been the target of some of the most restrictive and comprehensive security measures ever deployed by a state against its own people.”
“as WordPress matures I think it moves further away from the ideal blogging interface for someone who wants to write every day”
Link. Gutenberg is for page design. How does it compare to FrontPage ‘97?
Aspirin for DVT prophylaxis?!?
Link. Other studies have said opposite. I’m at a loss.
High volume lying is the future of politics.
Link. It has worked too well.
Volcker: “The central issue is we’re developing into a plutocracy”
Link. Argentina.
Maple Leaf fans again fall prey to hope
Link. Cruel to watch their inevitable disappointment
“128 GB iPhone XR costs $350 less than the 256 GB XS”
Link. Great point. 128 is good.
Soccer: “female athletes in the study suffered damage to an average of about 2,100 cubic millimeters of brain tissue, compared with an average of just 400 cubic millimeters in the male athletes.”
Link. CrossFit is far safer. I would not want my daughter to play soccer.
Google Shopping Insights.
Link. Experiment in mass thought.
Probiotics aren’t very useful, can be dangerous
Link. Don’t use them
“Chocolate-colored Labrador retrievers have a 10 percent shorter lifespan than black or yellow Labradors”
Link. Overbred.
Supplements contain untested stimulants, sildenafil.
Link. Probably addictive. GOP blocks FDA regulation of these Chinese products.
Trump WH increasingly desperate for tech help
Link. “If you’re thinking of going to work for Trump, just remember the Nuremberg rule: “I was just following orders” isn’t a defense.”
Stack Overflow – suggestions for future.
Link. A beginner version, redoing the Ask page.
“in 1965, the Justices found unanimously that a draftee did not need to believe in God in order to have a conscience that could object”
Link. Atheism in America.
“Super Res Zoom means that if you pinch-zoom before pressing the shutter, you’ll get a lot more details in your picture than if you crop afterwards”
Link. Computational photography.
Merrimack River gas pressure disaster dissected
Link. Sensors were separated from the distribution system.
More on how badly iCloud file synchronization works
Link. Not surprisingly. Sadly.
Add Weather Underground forecast to Google Calendar
Link. Works for me.
Nasty flaw in Minnesota mail ballot process.
Link. Do you remember which ID you used for the ballot application form?
“the fact that the defense industry is so big, and that people-blower-uppers is one of our major exports, ought to bring a certain and regular human discomfort and self-reflection”
Link. Peggy Noonan? In Murdoch’s journal? Is nothing trustworthy any more?
“It is a moral stain on our nation that we implemented a tax cut financed entirely by borrowing, the benefits of which will flow almost entirely to the richest 10 percent of all households, while other people die because they can’t afford insulin.”
Link. Americans are pathetic.
Clonal disorders: Mayo Clinic review of CHIP implications (Aug 2018).
Link. An exciting time in medical research. This is a great review article, but it’s probably already obsolete.
Instagram falls to the Trolls.
Link. Social networks need to be architected for a world of Trolls. That conflicts with advertising priorities.
Europe’s original dogs replaced by neolithic migrant dogs.
Link. American dogs similarly replaced. I wonder about distemper.
iCloud Drive iWork document versioning is not reliable.
Link. Failed basic testing.
“Canada blocked efforts to formally declare asbestos a hazardous material under an international agreement”
Link. “asbestos became the leading cause of workplace deaths in Canada.” A failure of voters.
Advice From Health Care’s Power Users.
Link. Pretty basic: carry your own records, prepare questions in advance and hand them to provider, have a 2nd set of ears. Ideally, have a doctor in your family.
Chemo and Immune therapy for triple-negative breast cancer with PD-L1 marker.
Link. “median survival was 25 months in the combination group, versus 15.5 months with just chemo” Unpublished data, expect that gap to shrink in the real world.
Attack of the Clones – New disease mechanism identified.
Link. This could be big. As big as it gets in medical research.
“a mathematical object is completely determined by its relationships to all other objects”
Link. Actually readable.
A review of extremism in the autism community.
Link. Trolls are everywhere.
We still need a way to explore and resurface old blog posts.
Link. Maybe a future Feedbin feature?
On autistic meltdown and exhaustion – lost works from former bloggers.
Link. Useful guides, from the communicative region of the autism space.
MarsEdit – drag and drop link creation only works with Safari now.
Link. If you use Chrome and miss this feature let Daniel know. I think he’ll fix it sooner or later, but likely depends on demand.
The terrain of mathematics. (image)
Link. From http://bit.ly/2EA5a3q. Martin Kuppe.
Why is the hamstring connected to the paraspinal muscles?
Link. A minor back strain triggers baseline hamstring contraction on the same side. What’s the adaptive advantage?
Autistic Regression.
Link. Fits our experience. Doubt is in medical lit; there is *no* post-pubertal autism research. Autism varies – could be environment or biology.
“the valley of despond, and I think it’s going to be a crucial factor in developments over the next few years”. Jan 2015.
Link. Prophecy fulfilled.
“… at any given time, not all countries have that mysterious “it” that lets them make effective use of the backlog of advanced technology developed since the Industrial Revolution”
Link. I remember Thailand changing in late 70s.
“Puppies without human caretakers face mortality rates of up to 95 percent in their first year of life”
Link. Adapted to the human environment.
Touch Bar is a failure.
Link. So far.
“Mojave does not support writing 16bpc/deep color HEIC images”
Link. sigh
“Apple added the Markup extension in 10.10 Yosemite”
Link. Huh?!
Geeks beware: “Harvard had to be wary of admitting too many, because “a whole bunch” of them “will end up happily ever after at M.I.T. or Caltech”
Link. I can see that.