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Link. I see this as favoring surgery.

Link. Very hard to price – which is likely a feature.

Link. Apple’s rawest release.

Link. And yet Marzipan is the future.

Link. Might be reasonable advice for 95.

Link. Can be a problem, limited advantages.

Link. Smallest s update ever. More expensive.

Link. Quebec’s past century is fascinating and complex.

Link. He needed an editor.

Link. High on “moral outrage”. But there is no money in sobriety.

Link. Smart money bets no sterile neutrino. Smart money is boring.

Link. Wow. That is so … boring.

Link. Hope 3D touch dies.

Link. A classic rant, but needs repeating every few years. My only explanation is that our business models reward waste.

Link. This is more important than you think.

Link. Can’t manage books from High Sierra.

Link. Reminds me of ancient imessage activation problem. It is worse in ios 12 on my test phone.

Link. This is a problem in healthcare now. I never pickup. 90% of my voice calls are scams.

Link. Watch the bets smart money makes. How do we bet on China to win?

We are not the 1%. Maybe the 4%? Relatively wealthy. Lots of degrees. Decades of education. Resources.

So we shouldn’t know much about life with government support. We have children with cognitive disadvantages though, so we do. They live in the government support world (in large part because, fairly soon, we will be dead).

Among the things we have learned:

There is an immense amount of paperwork to complete — and it never ends.
Critical paperwork constantly gets lost. Perhaps a 25% loss rate? This part surprises.
Every time someone exploits a weakness a new rule is glued on, the system gets more brittle, and error rates rise.
Nobody knows how it all works. There are numerous conflicting models of the system but they are all incomplete and inconsistent.

This has a lot in common with American health care (though the paper loss rate is worse). The root causes may be similar, we Americans seem to be unusually good at creating large scale dysfunctional systems.

Perhaps one of our Celestials will fund a research program into why we do so badly.

Link. The consequences are still unfolding.

Link. Clarence Thomas will be relieved.

Link. Adds a dimension to Eisenhower.

Link. Putin couldn’t have done it without Murdoch’s help.

Link. We need to replace iPhone batteries every 2 years.

Link. They are really good.

Link. Numbers works well for lists. Does it scale?

Link. Core of Gruber’s review without the effusiveness.

Link. Still not boring.

Link. Wanted this for years. No subscription. Will buy.

Link. Apple doesn’t have a product in this space

Link. Airborne things we live in, breathe in. Not counting viruses.

Link. Dems have the best staff.

Link. Guy was a fraud. I’d never heard that false meme though. Wonder what impact it had beyond usual Oprah nonsense.

Link. I underestimated Putin.

Link. Extreme conservation.

Link. China is interesting to contemplate

Link. A useful persoective.

Link. All the usual scum.

Link. Don’t get attached to virtual things.

Link. Connectivity lags.

Link. Wonder how much China drives the big jump at the top

Link. This is bad. Incidentally, works for walking, bad for CrossFit.

Link. History aside this is important. I had no idea.

Link. Immense profit goes to the ruthless.