Link. Of course they will reduce human labor demand
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“Nationally, black students are suspended three times as often as their white peers; in Minnesota, it is eight times as often.”
Link. Is it because white kids in MN are suspended less often than elsewhere?
“Republican Sen. John Kennedy also demanded an explanation for United’s high rates of animal deaths in transit—18 of the 24 deaths on major US air carriers in 2017”
Link. At last, something we can agree on.
Google Calendar Feedback: Provide option to disable rich text.
Link. gCal rich text option is screwing up my client calendars on iOS.
Apple’s curious response to complaints about unexpected iTunes Media Services cellular data use
Link. Several Discussion posts have same support response: “Due to the nature of your issue, you may find more information by using another one of Apple’s support resources”. I think this is (yet another) (expensive) iOS 11 bug.
Brazil. 1985.
Link. The most prescient film in the history of cinema. It is where we live now – Trump, Apple, Facebook, Google.
“as simple and widely used a molecule as naproxen binds to hundreds of proteins well enough to photolabel them”
Link. Be afraid.
Migrating Magnetic Dunes in Tanzania
Link.
Apple has a new problem with DRM and device management.
Link. Broken or lost phones can’t be removed from DRM limit, and the 90 day limit association limit is broken.
NYT exposé: Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Rebekah Mercer, Kogan and the war on compassion.
Link. I liked Facebook for many things. Now it is time to leave both Facebook and Instagram. Great NYT journalism.
Trump psyche: more data on the delusion vs. deception debate.
Link. O’Donnell says it best: “there are times when he just compulsively lies and there are times when he strategically lies … after he says something … whatever he says becomes his reality”
And so it came to this.
Link. “I’m just saying it’s no longer insane to suspect that we lost a war we didn’t realize we were fighting.”
America’s original (healthcare) sin: “Fearing runaway inflation in tight labor markets, the American government imposed a cap on wages”
Link. WW II. But not on fringe benefits
The price of plasma is a good measure of the economy.
Link. The higher the better.
Rat lungworm is oozing North
Link. Fry your slugs.
Trump’s core value is revenge.
Link. White Americans chose this.
“The former No. 2 at the FBI is suggesting the President of the United States improperly fired the FBI director and then endeavored to discredit his top deputy, a key witness to that wrongdoing”
Link. Watergate begins to pale.
Penrose on Hawkings
Link. Lots of physics history.
Chinese Citizens With Bad ‘Social Credit’ to Be Blocked From Taking Planes and Trains.
Link. Singapore succeeded.
GrayKey is another VM hack on iOS pw retries
Link. A known vulnerability. Alphanumeric strong pw may defeat it
What Causes Canker Sores? We don’t know
Link. It is kind of insane that we still don’t know
“Mueller’s investigators’ approach to Manafort certainly makes it look like he believes Manafort has critical information that goes well beyond his mundane financial crimes.”
Link. Russian agent.
Basic Synology NAS Setup
Link. Great ref. Mine does Time Machine. I set it years ago and rarely check it except to test restores
OmniFocus has export options — unlike Cultured Code’s Things.
Link. “Your data belongs to you; if you want to send it to other applications, run scripts on it, publish it on the web, or do other exciting stuff with it that we haven’t even thought of, you’re more than welcome to write it out to the format of your liking.”
Cultured Code Things: there’s an Import page — but no Export.
Link. Roach Hotel — you can check in, but …
Appigo ToDo task backup and restore
Link. Might be used to do task export?
White men “anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. They tend to be less educated”
Link. Gun buyers AND Trump base.
What Went Wrong With Siri: Tsai roundup.
Link. I suspect same story true of other Apple software since 2011.
The ultimate guide to reading on an iPad.
Link. If Apple has any star coders left they should read this.
DaAvie Tevanian Was on Theranos’s Board of Directors
Link. He fell a long way from his Apple glory days.
The Theranos scam shows its customers were idiots.
Link. Amazing scam – but really stupid investors.
Share iCloud Storage with “family”.
Link. Saved us money and got more storage
Exxon will have to testify on its understanding of climate change
Link. This should be fun.
Redefining disease: “large-scale search of electronic health records for hidden Mendelian diseases”
Link. Our models of disease are getting rebooted.
Google Maps transit: “wheelchair accessible” routes
Link. The lead grows.
Employment: some disabled workers return.
Link. Impressive.
More APFS issues: no hard links
Link. I think I will skip High Sierra. Stay Sierra through fall 2019
An unusual story of OCD
Link. Fascinating. The abrupt resolution is unusual.
“AI will allow computers to take over Internet security tasks from humans, and then do them faster and at scale”
Link. Not convinced this shifts the balance
“Siri has existed for seven years without cohesive leadership or product vision, and the underlying technology is a mishmash of various systems that don’t work well together.”
Link. Not Apple’s only software debacle in past 7 years.
“United has the highest rate of animal fatalities of any U.S. carrier with 18 deaths in 2017”
Link. Culture comes from the leadership.
Evidence-based reduction of school shootings.
Link. There has been good work done.
Einstein almost missed out on GR
Link. Interesting others were so close. Nobody indispensable
History of Siri
Link. Bit of a trainwreck
State of the black hole information paradox
Link. We need a pet black hole
Physically Fit Women Were Almost 90% Less Likely to Get Dementia in 44-Year-Study
Link. Correlation
Wikivoyage – travel information.
Link. Sounds like good addition to Wikipedia, at least for major sites.
Things ypu mght want to buy
Link. Great experience dump
“FoxNews.com readers could have been excused for holding the impression that the nation was in the middle of an epidemic of female teachers sexually abusing male pupils.”
Link. Rupert Murdoch’s legacy.
Student walkouts – only a token
Link. Will they campaign for Dems? That is all that matters