Link. Unscientific, but seems right. I love bicycling, but it is only efficient exercise as a daily commute.
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Johnny Hallyday, French superstar with million person funeral.
Link. France is an island.
The bitter nocoiner.
Link. Neurotic retention of arithmetic.
Economist mini-obit collection
Link. Sample of humanity, often messy.
Hotel Belvédère: abandoned by its glacier
Link. Wonder when owners first saw their doom
Limair: the “lime air” cave cooled sanitarium
Link. Sanitaria attracted eccentrics.
Weed is getting very cheap
Link. With no money from pot where will street sellers earn money?
Google tablets go Chrome over Android
Link. A mess.
Did an autonomous Tesla kill its first cyclist?
Link. Nov crash has had no follow-up, no questions answered.
iPhone Photographer Camera Kit
Link. Great personal tools
Apple battery message: Tsai response
Link. I liked: “Why are some pundits so obtuse?”. Also, will we lose phone for a week?
I think this NYT article is a caution to #metoo extremism ….
Link. … but it is written in code. Needs translation
The power of realistic thinking.
Link. In this universe “pessimism” is just realism. Outcomes biased as smarter people probably more “pessimistic“ (realistic).
“prank common in the online gaming industry known as “swatting.”
Link. “Prank”. Couldn’t think of a better word?
Bose-Einstein condensates simulate a simple cosmic inflation model.
Link. Neat experimental model.
Aperture sync photo to iPad: old advice to delete iPod Photo Cache periodically.
Link. I’m going to try after my 380GB library backs up. Annoying issues with sync 9,000 image slideshow to iPad.
Trump undoes Deepwater Horizon Spill rules
Link. Gulf states voted for him.
Google’s de facto support for climate change denialiam.
Link. DefyCCC, probably Koch funded, pays for search rankings. As usual Google “stops” when caught.
Tsai on micro.blog
Link. I like my blogs
Apple doesn’t understand only Apple can do App Store refunds.
Link. Fail.
Even NYT knows security questions are stupid
Link. A tax on geeks
“slashed the price of battery replacements for iPhone 6, 6s, and 7 devices from $80 to $30.”
Link. Wow. Poor techs
The Mandela Effect.
Link. Common SF theme.
End of ‘SALT’ Deductions: “big cudgel to Democratic candidates trying to unseat Republican incumbents in reddish parts of high tax blue states”
Link. GOP increasing what MN gives to AL
Drug rehab: “ethically murky business of customer acquisition in the treatment world.”
Link. Is capitalism getting nastier?
Drake equation revisit.
Link. Nothing new & headline annoys, but reminds how mysterious “great silence” is.
2018 – year of the Black Hole.
Link. “objects as small as 15 microarcseconds (μas) can be resolved: the size of a fly on the Moon”
New Antibiotic Action from an MS drug component
Link. Pseudomonas! Already approved for human use
“Men with graduate degrees or strong disapproval of President Trump reported lower rates of harassing colleagues.”
Link. I have wondered about medicine
US life expectancy down 0.2% for males.
Link. Again.
The passing of Rock ’n’ Roll.
Link. Jazz did this.
Olympic doping: IOC hopelessly corrupt.
Link. Russia is good at being bad.
Canadian goalie obit: “played hockey as a child on frozen ponds with a goalie stick his father shaped out of a tree branch”
Link. Bower.
NYC violent crime down 90% from peak
Link. A non-linear system
Fake fed feedback comments – on retirement advice law?!
Link. What is this about?!
Taiwan’s leap to Canadian healthcare – 1990s
Link. If GOP kills ACA its successor will be less polite
Robotic gas main maintenance.
Link. Fewer workers needed
How to maybe stop Sierra from preferentially auto-connecting to XFINITY WiFi.
Link. Deleted a Profile PreferencePane XFINITY cert. Still not sure that helped though.
Fixes for preventing connection to XFINITY WiFi don’t work for me.
Link. My Mac still does it. Doesn’t help Sierra has bug prevents non-admin from altering their netwrork settings.
How to Build a Successful Team. NYT.
Link. Based on 500 interviews.
Mouse connectome map: “Petabytes of petabytes”
Link. Focus is on mapping far simpler brains. It’s going to be an AI task.
“Apple is working to completely stop selling digital music by the end of 2019″
Link. Future comes too fast.
Ice wall and creep in building materials
Link. Civil engineering is great topic
Brief note on how Murdoch’s Trump policy forced WSJ staffers out.
Link. Relative silence on Murdoch’s role speaks volumes.
“IBM and AT&T, in their halcyon days, were far more dominant than Apple is today.”
Link. Several powerful competitors.
Tech sniffs at borders of healthcare
Link. Some lessons learned from Google/MSFT Personal Health Record fiasco.
Phone Security: xkcd
Link. Roadmap for IoT theft response.
Can’t remove last “App” from the App Bar in iOS 11.2.1 iMessage.app? Turn screen to landscape mode.
Link. Weird bug. Suspect few run into it. Easy workaround.
Wind-solar power can result in being paid to consume
Link. Mine bitcoin? Truly good news really.
Chicago’s gang “database”
Link. A failure of government