Link. I’ll buy, tho like Aaronson I don’t see progress as inevitable
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Uber crash: “would anyone be surprised to find that this crash was precipitated by a series of irresponsible corner-cutting decisions fueled by a cocktail of arrogance and desperation?”
Link. We need NTSB to handle autonomous vehicle safety.
Democrats more diverse than thought
Link. Republican profile as expected
“The future of the country now rests on the results of the 2018 midterms”
Link. This would be a good time for the Illuminati to get real.
Feedbin has share to micro.blog widget
Link. I like Feedbin.
Students and guns: “There is a big practical difference between tuning into politics and actually voting”
Link. Voting matters.
The Tillerson fiasco
Link. Maybe he was a figurehead CEO?
Shkreli vs. Holmes: One liar did great harm. The other went to prison.
Link. If she were male, would she be in prison now?
Google, Microsoft, and Caltech collaborating on quantum computing simulations in chemistry.
Link. Not waiting
Congress on science: better than expected.
Link. Despite Trump.
America divides by cognitive ability
Link. Somewhat by gender, but not as clear
Apple eBooks to suck less?
Link. DRM rethink and iCloud Files.app eBook management would help.
Jimmy Carter may outlive the Guinea worm.
Link. South Sudan meets a milestone
IBM kills the Olds (40+).
Link. Ubiquitous in tech, they are just more obvious.
Economics of the singularity: “It is questionable whether it is even possible to have “rational expectations” of a profoundly uncertain future”
Link. Trump. Brexit. AI. Macroeconomics assumes laminar flow.
“strongly suggests a failure by Uber’s automated driving system and a lack of due care by Uber’s driver (and by the victim)”
Link. All 3 went wrong. Petitions now circulating to mandate bike-ped detection certification prior to road trials.
“the entire world of 4K HDR video is a mess”
Link. I’m barely on HDTV. Happy to stay there a few years
“A price war started by a new phone carrier, Reliance Jio, in 2016 has given India one of the lowest prices for data in the world.”
Link. Computers are rare.
Mumps vaccine less effective?
Link. Curious.
Gordon’s shares out of order
Looks like my pinboard IFTTT feed stopped working a few days ago. I’ll take a look tonight.
“Hawking has not found a new way to measure the existence of other universes.”
Link. The “last paper” should be quietly buried.
Subscribe with Google
Link. Problem: newspapers are addicted to differential pricing and longterm subscriptions
Stross on Über killer car
Link. Brilliant. BTW, max 3y for ped car-kill in AZ. Rest US similar.
MindNode as best mind mapping app.
Link. Great development path.
Mac Bluetooth debug menu includes reset.
Link. I miss OS X hints. This is a great tip.
Canada loses outdoor ice rinks
Link. Minnesota same. Huge change in last 20 years.
Young exercise builds better hears (rats)
Link. Likely true in us before stem cells fade. CrossFit for all in schools.
Roberts: “free speech is becoming a legal tool that favors corporations over individuals.”
Link. Corporate power is defining theme of our times.
Math: The Langlands program.
Link. Math journalists have an impossible job.
“The battle between Mercedes and Hope [Hicks] was ugly as hell. I mean, Mercedes was fucking cutting her up.”
Link. Fun place.
Obscure Apple accessories.
Link. I knew most of them, owned several. Fun.
GrayKey iPhone Unlocker – Geeks are safe
Link. “not everything is broken, just the weakest passwords (4-6 digit numeric)”
Atlantic: Manafort, Stone and Lee Atwater – from Nixon to Trump.
Link. The GOP has been rotten since Reagan. Perhaps Manafort’s greatest crime: “war continued for more than a decade, killing hundreds of thousands of Angolans.”
“Sandberg and (presumably) Zuckerberg resisted investigating and disclosing everything they could about how the Russians took advantage of them”
Link. Good guy left
Facebook’s CA problem: “users could give away everything about their friends as well;”
Link. Great context here.
Autonomous Uber kills pedestrian.
Link. I will follow this closely.
Resist urge – the swap deception
Link. Tricking the brain.
“United Airlines, a Chicago-based animal euthanasia company that occasionally also functions as an airline”
Link. Ouch.
Japan outsources elder care to prison system.
Link. In US we outsource care of adults with cognitive disabilities to prison.
Trump’s victims fight back: “disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history,”
Link. GOP largely aiding Trump.
US ‘All of Us’ biobank project: phenotype & genotype.
Link. Physics envy?
Native Americans in Congress.
Link. “United States did not grant native people full citizenship and the right to vote in federal elections until 1924,”
US tax system weakens. Again.
Link. GOP.
Gaming old age
Link. I’m savimg golf for my 80s, hang gliding for 90s.
“Retrospect 15 can back up IMAP email accounts to a local or cloud destination, restore a lost email or account, and help to migrate from one service to another more easily.”
Link. I didn’t think Retrospect could be saved.
PLATO – a brief history.
Link. Social network as part of OS. I never used PLATO but I knew that game.
NYT records, for history, GOP leaders who stayed silent
Link. Guilty.
Hawaiian demographics – 1778 to 2015.
Link. My copy of 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica predicts population will recover. How close is 680,000 to 18th century carrying capacity of the region? Malthusian limit? (wikipedia article very different: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hawaiian_population)
Google APIs Explorer.
Link. I had no idea. Fun to play with. For example: http://bit.ly/2DDLypa
How to build a safe and sane social network.
Link. The public radio model.