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Republicans Have Never Cared About Deficits.
Link. Not since Reagan anyway
Reminder: delete ~/Music/iTunes Library/Mobile Applications/
Link. No longer used.
HomePod: “out-of-warranty repair and replacement will cost $279”
Link. Sigh.
Migrating Data From The Apple Wiki Server
Link. More options than expected. Not usual lockin!
HomePod: “sometimes this speaker sounds really great, sometimes it really doesn’t.”
Link. Not for audiophiles
Add a PIN to Your Smartphone Account to slow number theft
Link. Desperate move
Deficit spending experiment will test full employment.
Link. Useful experiment.
Experts in reading the illegible
Link. Medieval shorthands.
There was no “10,000” human near extinction event.
Link. Cockroaches of the mammals unbothered by massive volcano. What is that 50k founder effect?
GOP follows path of Venezuala
Link. Murdoch wants this?
Trump calles Priebus to complain about Kelly.
Link. “In the West Wing, various characters fall in and out of favor with such rapidity that it is never entirely clear who has the president’s ear.”
Dreamhost: online store with WordPress and WooCommerce
Link. Free. Good ref.
48V cars: “offer fuel economy improvements of up to 15 percent”
Link. Much bigger deal than I thought
FaceTune: create the fake you.
Link. I had no idea.
Dems go liberal.
Link. Even the Whites
“thousands of interstellar objects are inside our Solar System at any given time”
Link. How some plants and animals got to Hawaii.
“largest disparity between body mass and lifespan.”
Link. Bat species with fixed telomere lengths
NYT: “Subscription revenue now accounts for 60 percent of the company’s total revenue. Subscription revenue in the quarter rose 19 percent.”
Link. Voice of the Resistance
Authorization and password management 101.
Link. Use Firebase Auth, use GUID for internal user ID. I have caveats about 2F however.
Making Live Photo useful: long exposure and choose frame
Link. What is res when change frame?
Panetta on Kelly: “new, bad version of his old friend might be the product of too much time spent with his current boss”
Link. Free at last.
Making gut stem cells resistant to chemo.
Link. Protect innocent. Promising.
Sessions: “he proposed a crime bill that would have made the death penalty mandatory for a second conviction for drug trafficking.”
Link. Horsemen of the Apocalypse
“warn you against a smart home because living in it is annoying as hell.”
Link. I wear a $10 dumb watch.
Holder-Obama group to “chip away at Republicans’ sweeping control of the redistricting process”
Link. A long road back.
“Europeans didn’t develop pale skin until a few thousand years ago”
Link. Blue eyes, dark skin. Inferior agricultural diet required lighter skin despite many drawbacks.
“Gold’s color and mercury’s low melting points come from these relativistic effects” – electron velocity
Link. Why didn’t I know that?
Nazi to be GOP candidate for House. (In a Dem district)
Link. Will Trump support him? Longshot.
Electronic Health Records: A failure?
Link. I spent 19y in EHR development. I’d answer yes.
Protein for muscle: “extra 10 percent or so in strength and about 25 percent in muscle mass compared to the control groups”
Link. A LOT of protein. Twice RDA. Supplements needed
HomePod should sell lots of Sonos One.
Link. Alas, it will probably succeed.
Google builds web-based parental controls into Android.
Link. Apple is now behind.
Ozone layer not following the models.
Link. Good news for researchers.
ASD meds
Link. SSRIs widely used – but little knowledge
“Apple wants growth, its existing customer base is by far the most obvious place to turn.”
Link. Lock in. Then squeeze.
Polling: social and web
Link. Good ref
Germany follow the Trump-Brexit path
Link. The price of neglecting the underclass.
“labor market fluidity — job switching, creation and destruction — has been declining since the 1980s.”
Link. Age of the MegaCorp.
15% memory boost with direct brain stimulation
Link. Hard to see clinical utility.
How to watch the 2018 Winter Olympics
Link. What about VPN to CBC?
Smoking … drinking … and hot water?!
Link. Hmm. I’m skeptical
MarsEdit 4.0.7 – better blogger downloads.
Link. I’m one of the fans who ran into blogger limits
“phone prices continue to creep up higher and higher”
Link. Average or premium?
“tricky economy of online food ordering”
Link. Restaurants are getting clobbered
“conventional news and commentary is incapable of handling willful lying in the public sphere”
Link. Murdoch’s power.
Stross on the state of pop SF
Link. I liked “clutching a softly-glowing fondleslab”
The chaos of FEMA disaster contracting.
Link. Blame Congress. Bipartisan.
Nunes-Ellis: future investigations
Link. In unlikely event GOP loses House.
Trump takes 5th (effectively).
Link. Might be wise.