Link. American democracy in the ICU.
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Smartphones for All chapter excerpt: managing phone spam for special needs iPhone users.
Link. Quick to read but harder to write (draft version).
Call blocking services and mobile carriers: Verizon and Sprint charge separately.
Link. AT&T and Tmobile bundle. Don’t use Verizon if you have any other option.
Reminder: silent ringtones can selectively silence any iPhone noise.
Link. Easy to forget this option. Maybe be helpful for sound-sensitive users esp. if couple with Flash notification via Accessibility.
“you can Option-launch Photos and pick a Photos Library file within your Time Machine backup drive”
Link. I’ve not tested this. Interesting option for the desperate.
Macintouch’s poignant user posts on the tragedy of Apple photo management.
Link. Everything wrong with Apple in one place. In a just world the share price would be in the toilet. Alas …
“Xi, like other autocrats around the world, views patriarchal authoritarianism as critical for the survival…”
Link. The word Patriarchy will be part of the tagline for the era from 1950 to 2050.
Is it possible to distinguish a securely-encrypted ciphertext from random noise?
Link. Generally, no. I was wondering about this.
“Rhabdomyolysis is divided into exertional (typically benign) and non-exertional (worse outcome).”
Link. CrossFitters can relax
Google Docs equations.
Link. Works pretty well really.
Best laptop ever made to get longer life?
Link. A new MacBook Air. Hope they just tweaked specs, kept design.
Forester and bike infrastructure: why zealots are a poor guide to policy.
Link. Data matters.
Facebook use plateaued in 2016 at 70%.
Link. Some evidence that 70% is about max.
5G microcell wars: cities vs ALEC/Pai/Verizon
Link. Whatever Verizon wants is a bad idea.
In Trump-world Russia is friend, Canada is enemy
Link. White people chose this.
SUV surge
Link. Why Carbon Tax.
Pogue on the Vero scam.
Link. Next.
“abysmally low turnout among young people has long been a hallmark of American elections, particularly in midterm years.”
Link. Now feel better about leaving destroyed planet to the young.
“MP sensitivities in the central macula were significantly lower in patients taking HCQ for more than 5 years,”
Link. Hydroychloroquine may always damage retina to some extent. Unknown if reversible
“Overall, I feel that Twitterrific is the best replacement for Twitter for Mac”
Link. Tweetdeck has a place too
Dividing type II DM into subtypes
Link. Not sure how novel this is
Gun lessons from Switzerland.
Link. Highly regulated.
GMT and the next generation of ground-based telescopes.
Link. Not that far away.
Cells really love their Zinc.
Link. Great chemistry.
“… iOS App Store I can filter out the paid apps, but I can’t filter out the free options.”
Link. Yes.
The Econ 101 Management Method – Joel on Software.
Link. 2006 classic we should all bookmark. Pay for Performance. Via Tsai.
Apple engineer uses non-unique name rather than unique ID to identify products.
Link. Any self-respect left in Apple software team should be gone now.
Putin adds Italy to his American win.
Link. Berlusconi, Putin, and Trump bond over affection for sex workers.
Shipbuilder: “Nearly half of our employees could retire at any day”
Link. Capitalism will solve this – by making retirememt impossible.
Vashukevich, Russian sex worker, seeks to trade Russian attack info for “asylum”.
Link. Asking Putin for shelter from Putin.
Apps for documenting one’s bondage preferences.
Link. Advertising funded?
REI and MEC suspend orders for Bell bicycle helmets and CamelBak water bottles owned by gun maket
Link. Happy to be an REI member today
“Trump has long lambasted the trade deficit as a sign of United States weakness.”
Link. To be fair, Germany fell prey to this too.
Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting
Link. Absolutely. For years.
Hangouts Chat
Link. Teams, gChat, Slack.
“exit polls underestimate the number of white working-class voters, especially older ones, by a considerable amount.”
Link. Corollary: fewer white college voted Trump than thought. Also, WWC are powerful.
“unemployment will soon have to hit zero for workers at the bottom to get a raise.”
Link. Automation?
NSA wants to defend against Russian attack. Trump disagrees
Link. Yeah, world is nuts now.
Google’s promotion system – and project churn.
Link. Google is too big.
Mobile Real-time Video Segmentation (background swap)
Link. Don’t worry, AI won’t change much.
Google slowly turns on Infowars.
Link.
Processing geni.com to create family tree of 13 million
Link.
Emperor Xi: China’s uncharted waters.
Link. Modern state + Emperor is novel.
“insurance claims from all collisions, including fender benders, were about 3 percent higher in states that have legalized marijuana than in nearby states.”
Link. It us unlikely to decrease.
A few states resist GOP’s attack on American healthcare
Link. Remind yourself: white Americans chose the GOP.
Elite athletes often train at 80% max heart rate
Link. Easy pace for them would killme quickly
Heavy people don’t live longer after all.
Link. Similar lifespan to non-obese but more illness
Shareholder value screwed the middle class.
Link. Correlation, not necessarily causation.
“Take the guns first. Go through due process second,” Trump reiterated.”
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Acute flaccid myelitis in children due to emergent enterovirus infection?
Link. Rare polio-like disorder.