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Eastern Afghanistan: Taliban vs Afghan vs American vs Pakistan vs “ISIS” vs …
Link. Taliban/Afghan detente. Educating girls divides Taliban from ISIS there
Dismantling NY’s Tappan Zee Bridge.
Link. Painstaking. Much weight borne by floating hollow concrete
In a world of endless stories, one about a people ending
Link. Taushiro language. Infinite stories
Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts … “Customers seem to be opting for cheaper models of the iPhone”
Link. The 8 is only 10% overpriced.
My Instagram account was hacked — the follow-up is interesting.
Link. Error on my part, but interesting bit is that Instagram rejected use of the valid credentials.
So the folding problem was solved and now we make nanotech machines from designer proteins.
Link. Sing*.
Facing Trump: Lessons from Chavez
Link. I agree with the general strategy. Trump base is not rational.
Leonhardt struggles with probability and readers
Link. Probability is impossibly hard for humans.
Manhattan businesses that don’t take cash.
Link. Debit cards.
CPI investigates corrupt charity telemarketing industry
Link. Always check charity’s ratings
Christine Keeler obit – the 1960s moment.
Link. She had a moment.
Delaying dementia: exercise evidence insufficient
Link. Animal models evidence doesn’t count.
“Our democracy needs two decent parties, and at this point the G.O.P. seems to be irretrievably corrupt.”
Link. How do we get a different opposition.
GOP likely shipped US manufacturing overseas
Link. Was there anything good about their tax scheme?
Franken’s Senate exit: a thoughtful MN reflection
Link. Many here unhappy with Gillibrand and Schumer
Beethoven. In Our Time podcast.
Link. BBC radio did music prelude.
Testing autonomous vehicles in MN
Link. Arizona is child’s play.
Computer latency: 1977-2017. “the ipad pro can get into the same range as quick machines from thirty to forty years ago”
Link. Superb article. Going from 8086 to 80386 on DOS 3 was only amazing speedup I remember.
MOOC endures: edX partner list.
Link. Not news now. Not everything sucks.
Long NYT essay on corruption of Mexican media
Link. They are thinking of Rupert Murdoch.
Using Google Drive on iOS with iTunes and Google Sync to cobble a podcast solution together.
Link. Much better than Overcast — I can upload lots of files. Select what I want to play one at a time, but selection is easy.
Overcast.app: the upload feature in premium is not very useful.
Link. The feature I couldn’t test for free turns out to be worthless.
Guardian on Pence and Trump tobacco ties. (Old)
Link. Pence family owned “Tobacco Road” retail. He really is the worst of the worst.
GPCR variability helps explain why many drugs fail for many people.
Link. Probably years away from useful.
How To Sell Bitcoins (in Canada)
Link. Not simple, took 10 days, significant fees.
NYT profiles Murdoch and Trump.
Link. Cautious, even fearful. Murdoch wife 3 (he purchased #4 recently) is close friends with Ivanka Trump.
Simplenote for Mac search has been fixed.
Link. Hallelujah. Took two years. Now please fix tagging — and start charging me for something.
Blockchain looking like solution seeking problem.
Link. Recent ACM article showed blockchain isn’t even a well defined entity.
Mech Turk wages: “workers earned a median hourly wage of only ~$2/h, and only 4% earned more than $7.25/h.”
Link. Globalization?
Guardian reviews predictions of climate change deniers.
Link. Always wrong but never admit it. Several end up in extreme right.
Slow iOS 11: “rogue system process that somehow persisted through upgrades and restarts”
Link. Technical debt grows exponentially.
Pinterest rant.
Link. The death spiral of a female-only site is noteworthy.
30,000 devices searched at border, passwords taken by agents
Link. Extremely offensive
US “child-poverty rate reached an all time low, dropping to 15.6%”
Link. Outside US/UK 2017 was a great year.
Tsai judges Apple’s covert iPhone throttling.
Link. Great quotes for the jury. Guilty.
“most of the energy consumed in free apps is related to third-party advertisement modules”
Link. Dump ads, extend battery life
Simplenote.mac: “matched up the behavior of searching your notes to the iOS app.”
Link. I’m crying tears of joy now. Web version also was correct.
US cabinet groveling: “They were basically pleading for their own lives, with praise for Saddam.”
Link. “Your majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss”
Battery Life.app: utility now #11 im downloads
Link. Apple is goingvto be deluged with battery replacement requests
“The blood of the filthy proletariat will flow in the streets”
Link. Trump base lines up for ceremony.
Apple leaves HomeKit vulnerable until bad press
Link. This is them.
“Politics can be a nasty line of work, and Kirsten Gillibrand is good at politics.”
Link. Seeking presidency
How to delay the inevitable failure of your fitness resolutions.
Link. Last few years bigger focus on social exercise.
Managing anxiety – a pop NYT review.
Link. Pretty good really.
“Don’t play the piano part, I am playing that. Don’t listen to me, I am supposed to be accompanying you!”
Link. Thelonious Monk.
Worst Gadgets of 2017 is good read
Link.
“8 percent of … British adults said that they had cut off a family member”
Link. “Estrangement” is technical term
A comprehensive guide to the GOP tax bill of 2017
Link. Keep as reference
#MeToo excess: Gillibrand is wrong.
Link. Very American trajectory.