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Alzheimer’s research sucks: the trials problem

Posted on July 23, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Zero promising Rx means little doctor interest

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Phone scam – 20y prison sentences

Posted on July 23, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Much longer than past prosecutions

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Juul discovers the downside of marketing nicotine as fun.

Posted on July 23, 2018 by jgordon

Link. May the lawyers grow wealthy picking the bones of Juul.

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TED talks intolerable

Posted on July 23, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t mind the first few. Long dead to me.

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Defending Flake: verbal critiques not just “thoughts and prayers”

Posted on July 23, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Worth considering.

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Trump’s hip-hop heritage.

Posted on July 23, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Yeah, I see it.

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“The real collusion was in their hearts all along”

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. At one time Japan, Italy and Germany all felt a common affinity. Now it’s GOP and Putin’s party.

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Predicting low interest rates – reason to be humble.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. In 2018 Econ predictions are astrology.

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Lotterman on Janus v. AFSCME – the end of unions.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Excellent historical context.

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An Edward Lotterman Econ column.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. AFAIK no twitter or RSS and rest of paper is limited interest. The best pop-econ writer nobody knows.

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“What happens to the gravitational field of an electron when it passes through a double slit?”

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Sometime in next 30y we might be able to test something like this.

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Reich Genetics and Race essay, 3/2018.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Mostly unremarkable to a physician, but self-declared race is not very useful as a guide to care. He has an academic death wish though; I gather reception was fierce.

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Consumer DNA testing and nazi conspiracy theories.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. 23andme is crap and the rest are worse

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Pushback on James Gunn firing.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Maybe being played by Mike Cernovich is not a great strategy?

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Relay Therapeutics: molecular dynamic simulations get interesting.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Good way to use wealth.

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“Looking at genomic DNA is like looking at the night sky.”

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. This is a great essay. Must read.

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Dreamhost “shared” hosting: a tutorial

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Once this was all they did, now it is a bit of a hobby. The web peaked in 99, has been dying since 2010.

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Lessons from iPhone Restricted Mode: “Getting security right is hard for the best teams on the world”

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Apple’s first fix was surprisingly weak.

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Menstruation gets some attention again.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Hope menopause gets some focus as well.

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Melania’s home town

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Roots don’t get much humbler.

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Changing how health care is paid for.

Posted on July 22, 2018 by jgordon

Link. “E&M” accounting has been a 23y disaster. This might not be worse. Is a much bigger story than you think.

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25 Productivity Apps for Mac.

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Impressive list.

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People worth > 40M “overwhelmingly favour cutting spending on major social-safety-net programmes”

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Building the case for taxing wealth.

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How US hacked the DNC hackers.

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Subpoena power, Bitcoin isn’t really anonymous, then hacking the hackers. Assange is a total slimeball.

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Running a consumer service business: part 15 of a CrossFit example.

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Great tutorial, not particularly specific to CrossFit

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Traces of energy on the Left

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Wake me up when they win elections

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Chariots of the Gods 2018

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Von Daniken lives! Cognition is a frail evolutionary hack

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Quick Guide to Markdown

Posted on July 21, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Good ref. Not what we expected for 21st century tech

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Long NYT essay on lock-in as business strategy.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I use to rant on this 10-20y ago. It takes so long for these ideas to diffuse. Apple is the grandmaster of course.

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Vehicle History Services

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Some free.

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“Russian officials are talking about agreements coming out of that meeting, but Americans have no idea what was agreed”

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. GOP owns this.

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What Is Apple AirPlay 2?

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I appreciated this

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“Google Play Services silently shifted ever more apps from Android apps to Google Play apps”

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Excellent context for EU fine

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Where it is wise to be jaded: “Huge HR Initiatives That Will Totally Change the Way We Do Business.”

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Until the 7:30 am cattle call.

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Google, Facebook, & Microsoft’s Data Transfer Project

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Apple will never cooperate.

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Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Lecture.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. A brief and valuable read with analysis of what went wrong and the path forward. Also, I think, hint of frustration with the apathetic citizen.

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Kompromat and sistema: why Trump acts like a grossly incompetent Russian agent.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Trump money laundering involved family members too.

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Brain mapping automation: Google deep learning enhancement.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Connectonomics.

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Google Custom Search Engine: more money.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. It isn’t totally dead then

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Post Trump surrender Putin toys with America.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Irresistibly easy.

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Since Jan 2017 Trump has known Putin worked for his election

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Worthy of note.

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Autonomous vehicles used to derail transit projects

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. A convenient weapon. AV remind me of speech recognition in the 80s.

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India is also in the toilet

Posted on July 20, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Social media a factor.

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“only 28 percent of young adults ages 18 to 29 say they are “absolutely certain” they’ll vote in midterms, compared to 74 percent of seniors.”

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Don’t feel bad about leaving millennials a wrecked civilization. They deserve it.

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Rural health care in deep trouble.

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Rural America isn’t viable.

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Apple: “all my apps broke in some way on every single new OS that came out.”

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Aggravating to users

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1999 … “annual rate of cirrhosis deaths jumped 65 percent by 2016″

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Virus?

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“Donald Trump, as crazy as it sounds and as difficult as it may be to believe, is under some kind of influence or control by a foreign adversary power, whether by fear or avarice or some other factor.”

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. An emerging establishment consensus

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“fewer than a third of the states have reportedly undergone the security audits offered by the Department of Homeland Security.”

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. GOP tacitly encouraging Russian intervention in midterm elections.

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Valsartan recall: “It’s becoming very difficult for me to write prescriptions at all”

Posted on July 19, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Libertarians happy?

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