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“I don’t think spying is the specialty of the Chinese,” Kagame said”
Link. Trump level IQ.
71% of 20-30y S Koreans oppose unification
Link. I am surprised.
“Less than half of crimes that occur are reported to police, and long response times are a likely contributing factor to this trend of underreporting.”
Link.
CHIP is the hot new disease: “clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential.”
Link. Nobel prize territory
Why Trump can’t testify: “creates his own reality and he actually believes it.”
Link. He doesn’t know what is true so can’t speak truth
Bitcoin: “digital equivalent of $100 bills”
Link. The Benjamin. The future is bright in a satanic sort of way
“Apple plans to completely stop selling digital music by the end of 2019”
Link. Wonder if anyone will sell by 2021.
Mac and iOS Privacy: a guide
Link. Load remote images should be off
“Having reached the Pacific Ocean, we have covered 10 percent of earth’s history.”
Link. The metaphor works better than most
Poor iPhone sales
Link. Price matters
“Mediterranean-style diet heavy on plant foods and unsaturated vegetable oils, with whole grains like brown rice and bulgur, fruits and vegetables as the main sources of carbohydrates.”
Link. Still the best evidence
Retiring is good for you.
Link. Raising retirement age sucks
Preventive care doesn’t save money
Link. Known since early 90s.
Minnesota super bowl a money loser
Link. We knew it was nonsense
There’s no doubt Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice.
Link. Impeachment unlikely.
Arthritis update (personal note).
Link. Looks like fast OA, treated with Hydroxychloroquine.
Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: “Even after cessation of HCQ, there was progression of retinopathy in eyes with choroidal involvement”
Link. We really need to understand this better.
Vulnerable user support: Qustudio review and PC Magazine parental control page.
Link. Apple could clone Qustudio, update the look, enhance the unlock password handling, and add it to iCloud. This is doable.
GOP 2018: Postmodernism, Posttruthism, Tribalism, or Nihilism?
Link. Trump is just the end-stage, process was strong under GWB. Began on Left, but devastated Right.
Czech Republic continues drift to Russia and authoritarian rule.
Link. A global disease.
Facebook should adopt Google’s system for rating news sources.
Link. Classic AI: algorithm tries to match expert.
Toastmasters of Georgia
Link. “While toastmasters almost always discuss death, history, and peace, every feast changes depending on who is presiding.”
Photographs from America’s concentration camps
Link. Japanese-Americans have special reasons to join resistance
NYT ed: “Trump sure acts as if he has something big to hide”
Link. Murder?
Bruni puts Nassar, Sandusky and others into a common template
Link. We need more research on how these people happen.
“Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks”
Link. I think conflates bots with fraud. Not same.
In praise of Gchat.
Link. No interop means no choice.
Restoring from a snapshot with APFS.
Link. First good High Sierra news.
“adding an extra qubit potentially doubles the resources of a quantum computer.”
Link. Excellent discussion.
Ebola: “Bepridil, for example, provides 100% protection from Ebola infection in a mouse model”
Link. Great science.
“If cosmic inflation, General Relativity, and quantum field theory are all correct, the Multiverse likely is real”
Link. Siegel seeks the middle ground. More to my taste as a spectator.
Sabine (also) dislikes inflationary model building.
Link. I think she considers inflation to be plausible, but not the attempts to explain it.
Sabine _really_ hates the multiverse.
Link. One is a weird number.
Out of Africa: origin of anatomically modern humans in flux
Link. Lots of migrations of lots of hominims.
James Webb Space Telescope Deployment
Link. This seems impossible.
Applied air pollution for peptide drug delivery.
Link. Promising.
“There’s basically no country in the world where the consumer is not doing well,”
Link. 10y after the Great Recession began even Brazil & Japan expand
“create a Smart Group in Photos using “Unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library” as the matching condition”
Link. Somehow helps with upload bug
“a large decline in personal savings, which are now down to levels not seen since before the financial crisis”
Link. Good time to borrow against 401K to buy bitcoin.
Toggle iCloud Photo Library: “watched it cripple my internet access for a week”
Link. Does Cook have any clue?
$400 Million Goes Missing From Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck
Link. Having fun yet?
Swift is not a beginner programming language
Link. Pascal was the last one.
Why the genome of wheat is so massive.
Link. Incredible burden.
Brooks: “men whom society is trying to turn into emasculated snowflakes.”
Link. David Brooks has strong personal feelings here.
Religious right lineal descent from white supremacy.
Link. Trump isn’t a problem, he’s home.
Fraud alerts misfire and plane ticket cancellation
Link. Last cc fraud I had was 2 guys flying on my amex. Is this mire common now?
Wolfram tackles task of telling our story to aliens
Link. Read
“The conservative playbook is to shift funding sources to the states, while cutting states’ abilities to raise such funds off at the knees.”
Link. Simple but effective
“first machine in the world capable of solving partial differential equations.”
Link. Familiar to Pratchett fans