Link. Zero promising Rx means little doctor interest
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Phone scam – 20y prison sentences
Link. Much longer than past prosecutions
Juul discovers the downside of marketing nicotine as fun.
Link. May the lawyers grow wealthy picking the bones of Juul.
TED talks intolerable
Link. I didn’t mind the first few. Long dead to me.
Defending Flake: verbal critiques not just “thoughts and prayers”
Link. Worth considering.
Trump’s hip-hop heritage.
Link. Yeah, I see it.
“The real collusion was in their hearts all along”
Link. At one time Japan, Italy and Germany all felt a common affinity. Now it’s GOP and Putin’s party.
Predicting low interest rates – reason to be humble.
Link. In 2018 Econ predictions are astrology.
Lotterman on Janus v. AFSCME – the end of unions.
Link. Excellent historical context.
An Edward Lotterman Econ column.
Link. AFAIK no twitter or RSS and rest of paper is limited interest. The best pop-econ writer nobody knows.
“What happens to the gravitational field of an electron when it passes through a double slit?”
Link. Sometime in next 30y we might be able to test something like this.
Reich Genetics and Race essay, 3/2018.
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.
Consumer DNA testing and nazi conspiracy theories.
Link. 23andme is crap and the rest are worse
Pushback on James Gunn firing.
Link. Maybe being played by Mike Cernovich is not a great strategy?
Relay Therapeutics: molecular dynamic simulations get interesting.
Link. Good way to use wealth.
“Looking at genomic DNA is like looking at the night sky.”
Link. This is a great essay. Must read.
Dreamhost “shared” hosting: a tutorial
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.
Lessons from iPhone Restricted Mode: “Getting security right is hard for the best teams on the world”
Link. Apple’s first fix was surprisingly weak.
Menstruation gets some attention again.
Link. Hope menopause gets some focus as well.
Melania’s home town
Link. Roots don’t get much humbler.
Changing how health care is paid for.
Link. “E&M” accounting has been a 23y disaster. This might not be worse. Is a much bigger story than you think.
25 Productivity Apps for Mac.
Link. Impressive list.
People worth > 40M “overwhelmingly favour cutting spending on major social-safety-net programmes”
Link. Building the case for taxing wealth.
How US hacked the DNC hackers.
Link. Subpoena power, Bitcoin isn’t really anonymous, then hacking the hackers. Assange is a total slimeball.
Running a consumer service business: part 15 of a CrossFit example.
Link. Great tutorial, not particularly specific to CrossFit
Traces of energy on the Left
Link. Wake me up when they win elections
Chariots of the Gods 2018
Link. Von Daniken lives! Cognition is a frail evolutionary hack
Quick Guide to Markdown
Link. Good ref. Not what we expected for 21st century tech
Long NYT essay on lock-in as business strategy.
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.
Vehicle History Services
Link. Some free.
“Russian officials are talking about agreements coming out of that meeting, but Americans have no idea what was agreed”
Link. GOP owns this.
What Is Apple AirPlay 2?
Link. I appreciated this
“Google Play Services silently shifted ever more apps from Android apps to Google Play apps”
Link. Excellent context for EU fine
Where it is wise to be jaded: “Huge HR Initiatives That Will Totally Change the Way We Do Business.”
Link. Until the 7:30 am cattle call.
Google, Facebook, & Microsoft’s Data Transfer Project
Link. Apple will never cooperate.
Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Lecture.
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.
Kompromat and sistema: why Trump acts like a grossly incompetent Russian agent.
Link. Trump money laundering involved family members too.
Brain mapping automation: Google deep learning enhancement.
Link. Connectonomics.
Google Custom Search Engine: more money.
Link. It isn’t totally dead then
Post Trump surrender Putin toys with America.
Link. Irresistibly easy.
Since Jan 2017 Trump has known Putin worked for his election
Link. Worthy of note.
Autonomous vehicles used to derail transit projects
Link. A convenient weapon. AV remind me of speech recognition in the 80s.
India is also in the toilet
Link. Social media a factor.
“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.”
Link. Don’t feel bad about leaving millennials a wrecked civilization. They deserve it.
Rural health care in deep trouble.
Link. Rural America isn’t viable.
Apple: “all my apps broke in some way on every single new OS that came out.”
Link. Aggravating to users
1999 … “annual rate of cirrhosis deaths jumped 65 percent by 2016″
Link. Virus?
“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.”
Link. An emerging establishment consensus
“fewer than a third of the states have reportedly undergone the security audits offered by the Department of Homeland Security.”
Link. GOP tacitly encouraging Russian intervention in midterm elections.
Valsartan recall: “It’s becoming very difficult for me to write prescriptions at all”
Link. Libertarians happy?