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United horror stories coming out …
Link. Scum.
BikeSnob unloads on modern mountain bikes.
Link. My fave mountain bike was hard everything 1990.
Jobs: not improving.
Link. Still an unimpressive economy.
“Coronary mortality peaked in 1968”
Link. We have come a long way. (“, baby”)
Syria (and Libya): even in retrospect, no ovious fixes.
Link. More like this ahead.
United faces pressure from China.
Link. They can ignore US, but China more powerful.
Midwest Klan’s 1930’s “Black Legion” thought to have assassinated 50.
Link. Peculiar but valuable NYT OpEd on rethinking academic history of American conservatism.
NYT documents the exceptional hypocrisy of Trump’s golf habit.
Link. Even by his standards it is remarkable.
Redesign of Blogger dashboard.
Link. Active development.
The vitamin D craze peaks.
Link. Was a medical fad @2010.
Verizon email lesson: keep your ISP dumb.
Link. Don’t use Comcast email either.
Facebook.app iOS: “structured like a pile of garbage”
Link. No better than they have to be
Apple family sharing – 6 people, more details.
Link. Apple has quietly filled out their 6 person share plan. Good description on this marketing page.
Google: “130 trillion web addresses in its web crawls.”
Link. Web less connected than we thought.
China state hacks: APT10 and Cloud Hopper
Link. Stealing intellectual property.
Why NSA cyber attack attribution can be real.
Link. Someone hacked the surveilance cameras of Russian military hacker team.
Trump’s reading disability.
Link. Dyslexia?
T-mobile cheats on a customer promo.
Link. Weak alibi.
US cuts UNFPA funding.
Link. Think Bush did same.
NYT: “25.1 percent of men and 20.4 percent of women” equals 50% of people.
Link. Argggghhhhh.
Google “Fact Check” standard.
Link. Skeptical I am.
Zika intrauterine defect rate: 1/10 (very roughly)
Link. Reasons to suspect is both higher and lower.
Predicting Properties of Molecules with Machine Learning
Link. Not useful yet — but close.
“Federated Learning enables mobile phones to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping all the training data on device”
Link. Paging skynet.
How Google validates business listings for maps.
Link. Keep this for when a business owner needs help.
Google: “we’ll demonstrate full device takeover by Wi-Fi proximity alone”
Link. Broadcom chip exploit. I’m sure it’s only bug like this.
1930s “fair trade” legislation set floors for retail prices, protecting small-town manufacturers and retailers
Link. A model for a human-centric economy?
“judgment of the interviewers, in other words, added nothing of relevance to the admissions process”
Link. True.
Red dwarf worlds get a lot of solar flare dumps.
Link. Not great for the atmosphere.
Trump unconstitutional attack on critic fails — this time.
Link. This is him. It will happen again and again.
Selling the Hyperloop.
Link. Most of the players know it’s a game.
Sperm(s) as delivery bots.
Link. Uncertain practical value, but cool.
NSC’s McMaster purges another Trump nutball.
Link. Absolutely whacky people in positions of great significance.
Plant growth has moderated modern CO2 spike.
Link. Quantifying expectations.
Aung San Suu Kyi continues despotic decline.
Link. Nobody’s hero now.
GWB’s Africa HIV focus turns to HPV.
Link. Doing good.
Bannon-Trump believe in apocalyptic poo history.
Link. Cycles of History were big in the 60s.
Angie’s List caves.
Link. Tsunami was coming. But now we know CEO is major GOP donor.
Bannon’s end is too absurd to be fiction.
Link. Goldman Sachs rules.
The physics and sociology of the black hole information paradox.
Link. The obvious explanation produces no papers.
What Does the FBI Know?
Link. FBI a de facto ally of Putin?
Tudor court 2017: Bannon/Priebus/Mercers v Kushner.
Link. Kushner on top. Where is Pence?
In his words: Trump interview with NYT.
Link. AltReality.
Angie’s list funding The O’Reilly Factor.
Link. Time to rethink our subscription.
Wanted: scenic route option for Google maps.
Link. NAVIGON has.
“Tokamachi receives … 460 inches of snow a year” Used to, anyway.
Link. Hancock MI gets only 220. Used to, anyway.
Brooks on Trump admin incompetence: “hired on the basis of mere nepotism look like Dean Acheson”
Link. Cutting and funny. Great writing.
Excluding Files From Spotlight and Time Machine
Link. nobackup extension. Nice.
The “rational community”
Link. I’m so old.