Link. I think would have been tried even without heroic mother.
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Evidence based gun control.
Link. Not including repeal of 2nd amendment.
Visual processing shortcuts: we cannot see crazy stuff
Link. Money on trees
3 things slowing GOP environment attack: courts, fed bureaucrats and
Link. … and GOP lawyers avoiding Trump stench
The Best Jump Rope
Link. Double-unders easier to learn with heavy basic rope
An brief and intelligent discussion of SSN and identifiers.
Link. Many problems solved when we treat them as public.
Review of $700 TV (“best”)
Link. Dumb and 3D TV both gone. Complex.
L5 GPS in 2018 smartphone: vastly more accurate.
Link. Lower power too.
History of the browser user-agent string
Link. Many lessons here. It is all like this.
Tegmark AI book excerpt: building Prometheus.
Link. Weak SF, but another smart geek in the Strong AI court. Me too.
Google scholar update: “quote icon shows formatted citations in a variety of styles”
Link. Quietly better. No competition
Neandertal DNA update: “effective population size of around 3,000 individuals”
Link. So few! Also east asian more neandertal than west euro
NSA screwed up again, Kaspersky involved somehow
Link. They used to have a rep
Apple Is Investigating Battery Swelling in iPhone 8 Plus
Link. I like to buy around Dec
“Apple relies heavily on the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for its backend”
Link. Apple is far from a Cloud company
“shocking that Apple would be so hypocritical about privacy”
Link. Apple deserves no trust now
Settings:General:Shut down in ios 11
Link. Spotlight shut is quick
Another intellectual takes on TNC’s racial monomania
Link. TNC is stuck
“MPG stands by and re-emphasizes its advice to avoid upgrading to High Sierra for at least six months.”
Link. At least. Maybe skip it
Chaos in credit rating industry – credit lock mess
Link. Why Obama created CFPB
Roy Moore’s alliance with Peroutka and southern hate groups
Link. Basically pro-slavery.
Old rural white reaction to migrants powered Trump
Link. Catastrophic failure of Dem intelligence
Weinstein exposes because age has weakened him.
Link. Once I thought such secrets could not be kept.
North Korea is as crazy as GOP.
Link. American Whites set up greatest catastrophe since WW II.
Harvey Weinstein is not a good person.
Link. Even by Hollywood standards.
Part 2 of Google’s monster iPhone 7 hack.
Link. Weirdly reassuring. Only Google and maybe NSA could put this together.
“rigid metal bikes with fat-but-not-insanely-fat tires is a very good thing.”
Link. Plus bikes
Encrypted APFS Volume’s Password Exposed as Hint
Link. Tsai is quite reserved. I think this is hilarious. High Sierra is so well named.
Google’s Pixel Buds real time translation.
Link. Not ready yet, but next generation.
Tillerson focused on wrong thing
Link. White Americsn men overwhelmingly chose this
macOS Startup Modifier Keys
Link. Not ready. Not ready!
“Photos is not designed for someone who likes to actively manage their photo collection.”
Link. No kidding. Aperture still vastly superior
Google Maps knows UK better than Apple
Link. Bicycle routes are Google only.
Criticism of HEIC image quality
Link. No user control of compression parameters
Payola in literature has noble tradition
Link. Buy those Amazon reviews
Chalk remote support: AR promise appears.
Link. Virtual finger guides user on any remote task.
NYT describes 50 ways Tillerson is toast.
Link. Overengineered his departure.
Russia Worked the GOP Primaries Too
Link. We so underestimated Putin
Blogger tries to justify $1000 chromebook
Link. I don’t see it
Ten Safari.app long-press shortcuts
Link. Try everywhere. “view Recently Closed Tabs”, close all tabs …
San Francisco 1945 and the peak of Red America
Link. Great story
Google and Facebook totally fail the Vegas test
Link. Still unsafe at any speed
Brooks desperate pleas for miraculous new GOP leader to usurp Trump
Link. Sounds like Obama
Tax cuts increae inequality, in our world likely decrease growth.
Link. “putting every decision at the service of increasing their pay.”
“What does Trump and his family stand to lose or gain on Puerto Rican debt?”
Link. Indeed
Russia’s Facebook attack focused on surprise seing states
Link. Cheapest devastation of a nation in history
PR “Thank God half my house was cement. I still have that wall.”
Link. Article implies she was sincere.
Rex is a bad dog.
Link. We have nothing but satire now.
“60 percent of households between the 80th and 90th percentiles of the income distribution would face tax increases”
Link.
Scalzi: “feeling like I felt when Katrina hit every single fucking month of this year”
Link. The unrelenting awful stench of Trump’s America.