Link. Really. Nothing we don’t all know.
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How to Be a Good Scientist …
Link. … and medicinal chemist. I had some of these, but I’m too easily distracted.
Wirecutter: “you don’t really need a Keurig machine”
Link. Harsh.
Walmart pays tuition at 3 colleges
Link. They used to be eviller
Mail-order Chinese Fentanyl
Link. Forget docs and pharma. This is the battle now
Obama “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early”
Link. From the grave came the horror.
Polynomial techniques to segregate autonomous cars from pedestrians and bikes.
Link. Gives insight.
OmniFocus 3 for iOS
Link. Mav version is 2.0. No family sharing!
“U.S. rate in 2017 was higher than in 1976 and equal to fertility rate in 1978.”
Link. Age profile adjusted. It is likely to resemble Canada eventually however. Immigration helps.
Kīlauea: “people who live here or visit here just need to have good situational awareness”
Link. Confidence in understanding.
“Americans with depression, bipolar disorder or other serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years younger than those without mental illness”
Link. I think VHA does better thsn most with this population. What about Canada?
Coaches Eye, iographer frame and iPad for mountain biking skill video.
Link. A local team uses this. iPad mini is ideal, iPhone Plus not bad either.
iOS 11.4 “addresses a Messages issue that could cause some messages to appear out of order.”
Link. TidBITS coverage is the best
Russian nerve agent surprise: “speed of the Skripals’ recovery was a surprise, and that he still found it difficult to explain.”
Link. UK medicine is excellent, but it can’t raise the dead
Eduardo Porter leaving NYT: last column is on America’s cruelty.
Link. Maybe we are too big? One of my favorite writers
Musk and journalism – look to the 90s.
Link. Alta Vista! I remember you fondly.
Recreational genomics meets IQ testing.
Link. Zimmer not as smart as seems. Or perhaps phenotype prediction has been a great disappointment.
Retrospect 15.1.1: it keeps improving
Link. Impressive recovery.
De Beers goes synthetic diamonds.
Link. Not going quietly.
Mosul today
Link. Much recovery often comes quickly.
“it’s a lot easier to think a malevolent force is in charge than that our government is run by idiots”
Link.
Trump’s Manchurian Trade Policy
Link. Consistently worse than you think.
Tom Wolfe obit
Link. A character.
Lego Pirates of The Caribbean and the Fate of All Mankind
Link. Maximally efficient.
Pruitt increases coal plant CO2
Link. GOP policy
“our first directly-observed black holes”
Link. We have the data but analysis is novel and complex. May “see” this year.
“seven different HDMI versions, starting with 1.0, which was introduced back in 2002, and currently ending with 2.1, which was only announced back in November of 2017”
Link. Same connectors. Crap.
Ninalee Allen Craig obit
Link. The Economist takes a dig at #metooextremes
Trump Blames Dems For His Own Policy Of Separating Families At The Border.
Link. Sessions.
Show hidden files in macOS: undoing pre-Sierra settings.
Link. In Sierra cmd-shift-. defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Serving billionaires: “while working on superyachts has been fun, it can be difficult, demoralising and sometimes dangerous”
Link. Not a sentimental sort.
Money manager earnings: marketing?
Link. Maybe it’s so they don’t steal.
“Judah the Prince, compiler of the Mishna (a written compilation of Jewish oral tradition), made his home in Beit She’arim, assisted by a land grant from his childhood friend, the philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius”
Link.
Population growth in Minneapolis
Link. Steady past few years
The long odds against justice for an injured cyclist
Link. A world made for the auto.
MAGA: “there are 1.5 million years of life lost each year due to excess pediatric deaths.”
Link. 70 Katrinas
NYT: “Trump Falsely Says”
Link. Nice to drop the equivocations.
plus.codes
Link. Google’s obscure plus code URL. Weird that Google Maps.web still doesn’t show plus codes. Google Maps.app does.
How you tell Google that you no longer have that old iPhone.
Link. Click device name, then delete. You do wonder what privileges the new owner has …
Federal Right to Try (meds) law: “little change, with potential for harm.”
Link. Not good, but far from worst thing GOP is doing
“potential showdown between Trump and Congress over an attempt to save Chinese jobs”
Link. MAGAmax.
Lightning lint extraction
Link. Just use the magnifier on another iPhone to inspect. 3D scope not necessary.
Saving … ZTE.
Link. If American workers truly wanted GOP support they’d have made a better deal with the Trump family.
Chicago moves to London-scale surveillance.
Link. 52% drop in shootings in one area. Will be accepted.
DarACLU Report: Detained Immigrant Children Subjected to Widespread Abuse by Officials
Link. Trump’s militia, the worst of America.
Amazon is banning customers for making too many returns.
Link.
“first three-year stretch of reduced life expectancy seen in the US since the late 1910s”
Link. Fits Trump era.
Uber’s autonomous vehicle spotted human in good time.
Link. The imperfect automated system almost worked. So was bicycle recognition failure due to lack of effort or because it is a hard problem?
“When your package is within 10 stops of being delivered, Amazon will send you a notification letting you know that you can see your delivery driver on a tracking map.”
Link.
Baseballs mysteriously more aerodynamic.
Link. Global warming ruled out. Maybe it’s dark matter flux?