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RSS service vendor on 5th anniversary of Google’s betrayal.
Link. And all Google got was +. RSS is elite-geek now; bit like Tor in a way. Less crime though.
Another Mac Geek basically wants a Pro version of MacBook Air.
Link. His ideal is an Air with Retina and Power. The perfect laptop.
Pulmonary ionocytes discovered, thought to be key contributor to CF.
Link. Great progress last 20y, this will kick it up a notch.
“2015 … the top 200 companies by earnings accounted for all of the profits in the stock market,”
Link. S&P 500 Index Fund investing is getting odd.
Butina’s path
Link. Her #metoo attack on her professor was effective, but now not persuasive.
NY Times nerve fails: “Moscow undertook an influence campaign in 2016 to exploit partisan divisions in the American electorate and sow discord.”
Link. Editor removed “and elect Donald Trump”. Shame @nytimes
Lowering women’s college test scores in Japan.
Link. I bet Japan is not only nation to do this. Korea? India? China?
“Osama’s father went on to have 54 children with at least 11 wives.”
Link. Memories.
Gender quotas in Japan.
Link. Wow.
“the cosmos is littered with time travelers adrift between the stars and galaxies.”
Link. Ouch.
538: WWC is the key Dem target.
Link. Probably WWCW. Why I favor Tim Walz for MN dem primary
“Patients should be given more information about what it means for a facility to be religious.”
Link. Shame on those institutions
“efforts to reduce thyroid cancer detection are clearly warranted.”
Link. We find too many nodules on chest CT
Laptops under $500
Link. Disagree. Factor in malware effects and Chromebook or iPad better choices.
“Apple decided to ban all apps that do content blocking outside of Safari”
Link.
“Feedbin now takes advantage of the extra metadata available in the timeline feed to optimize the display of Micro.blog posts.”
Link. Two services I am happy to pay for.
Motif printed photobooks for Apple
Link. Now with app and extension
Emulating Photonic Crystals with B-E condensate matter waves.
Link. Quantum weirdness.
“If we’re thinking about monopoly power, Google is an almost infinitely bigger deal than Facebook.”
Link. Facebook is easily replaced.
“all a testimony to how much mileage the President and his minions have gotten with now years of essentially absurd claims.”
Link. Trump teaches us the liar’s advantage.
40% GOP voters favor Russian intervention in US elections
Link. Like watching an addict spiral downwards.
“FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency.”
Link. GitHub hosted. History.
K thinks drug sales & blackmail won’t sustain bitcoin value.
Link. Left door open a bit. Crime may find a way.
“what would happen to Treasuries if a major holder decided to sell everything,”
Link. Nothing, at least for @100 billion.
Electric flying spiders.
Link. “Darwin thought that electricity might be involved”. Of course. Because … Darwin rules.
High Deductible Health Plans fail miserably and completely.
Link. Medical Market Monster never noticed the pinpricks.
Rethinking recessions: irrational exuberance.
Link. No rational actors.
Russians Are Targeting Private Election Companies
Link. Red state government supportive?
“We cannot imagine what we’re putting at risk.”
Link. Actually we can.
The Meiji Restoration: An Economic History
Link. DeLong tackles Japan.
“Democrats and Republicans have in fact made unusual progress on the 12 appropriations measures necessary to keep the government operating”
Link. Buried in a Trump tantrum article is this interesting statement.
“as a crooked manager of a company, churning around your auditors until you find a bad ’un is exactly what you do”
Link. Superb writing on how to run a financial fraud.
On Financial Fraud: “nobody does confirm all the facts. There are just too bloody many of them”
Link. Complexity.
Travel clothes for men.
Link. For the serious wanderer.
From Talk to Slack: a brief history of chat
Link. Did BB have one too?
Issa: collusion and mistress payoff are great.
Link. The GOP is predictable. Note “businessmen”.
Biogen and Eisai: The bear case on Alzheimer drug
Link. Don’t be foolish.
Big Pharma working to kill Obamacare
Link. It’s ok to hate pharma. Really.
SK work culture involves lots of alcohol
Link. SK not ready to address the booze problem.
Article on shortage of truck drivers barely mentions static wages.
Link. Poor editing, but also another wage stagnation example. Removing speed limiter is typical GOP.
iOS Apps that work with Shortcuts.
Link. Reminds me of BAT programming in DOS. That is good.
iPad accessories for the classroom: case, keyboard, cable, charge station.
Link. Wired kb can be shared, BT kb a PITA to share.
Apple ID Disabled for Security Reasons – response.
Link. Annoy a child and they may generate a lockout. I wish Apple did 2FA as well as Google.
Paltrow and Goop: living a California dream.
Link. Knew the cigarette would not end well. Probably right to omit Oprah & other precursors. What is the middle-aged male analog?
Amazon does not understand the most basic principles of a test.
Link. This is Med school 101. Positive predictive value. Bayesian methods. Amazon has damned their case.
“nothing less than the breakdown of American foreign policy”
Link. GOP rule has been a national unnatural disaster. A fire across the government forest. Pray the rebuilding starts this fall.
Pharma scams: remember the rebate
Link. Pharma has layers of scams
Mantis shrimp – a paean.
Link. Tardigrade competition.
MindNode 5: separate version supports family sharing and enterprise/school buys.
Link. Workaround for In-App purchase problem Apple failed to fix. Omni Group should do this.