Link. “they love their job. They do like the boys.”
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China wealth management programs sound like trillion dollar ponzi schemes.
Link. Aiiieeee.
Micoblogging with Cimba and RDF.
Link. I’m curious.
News addict favors Newsify.
Link. Reeder is getting flakier; needs an update.
Obama routes around pathologic House GOP to keep Zika vaccine work going.
Link. House GOP is Trump ready.
The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol.
Link. Lots of detail. UMN bit of a villain. I remember HyperG in BYTE.
Comet Swift-Tuttle will end most life on earth. One day.
Link. Assuming no high tech sentient interested in moving it.
All the Apple databases of your products.
Link. Apple failed relational database 101 in the 90s and never remediated.
Greenland sharks “do not reach sexual maturity until they’re about 150”
Link. Live about 400 years. Age verrrryyy slowwwlllyyyy.
Simplenote clients go open source.
Link. I think this is bad news.
Old Olympians ride things.
Link. Horses obviously, but cyclists in 30s.
Marshall: GOP will remain “white ethno-nationalist party”
Link. Says reformocons will lose. He has good prediction record.
Greek Crisis: the IMF screwed up. Repeatedly.
Link. None so blind as will not see.
NYT dedicates entire magazine issue to collapse of Arab lands.
Link. I’d prefer an academic consensus with factor weighting.
Diet and exercise studies: “can get you any result you want in any observational data set”
Link. Most diet research should stop, but I think exercise can still be studied.
NYT: 36 Hours in Minneapolis
Link. Good choices.
Election 2016 is about the 2nd Quintile and Trump.
Link. T2Q.
Bottom 20% omitted from campaign policy.
Link. A root cause of Trumpism is ignored. Again. Still.
Update 8/11/16: Actually, this makes sense. The bottom 20% don’t vote. Trumpism isn’t the bottom 40%. It is the 2nd quintile: 20-40%. T2Q for short.
Force restart needed to free iphone storage?
Link. Cache purge? Dumb.
iTunes losing star ratings.
Link. Exasperating but expected.
A conservative blasts his appalachian culture.
Link. Suspect tabula rosa fallacy, but culture matters.
Florida 2000: 97,488 votes for Nader, Gore lost by hundreds.
Link. Lest we forget there are exactly two choices.
Partisan declarations in baseball and politics are similar.
Link. Talk is cheap, and in baseball harmless.
Science and the amazing work of non-profits.
Link. Academia is a mess.
Mathematica 11: “robust symbolic way to represent food”
Link. Wolfram Language rather. It does sound awesome.
“devoted actors”: natural cannon fodder.
Link. ISIS or whatever, built to die for a cause.
First American Woman to Win at Olympics.
Link. “the plaque listed Abbott as the winner of the ladies’ singles Olympic 1900 golf championship”
NYT summarizes recent Justice Dept police investigations.
Link. Disappointing because they don’t drill down to causes – such as quotas and pay-for-performance.
Another industry guy rants on Apple’s weird tangents.
Link. Cook was wrong choice.
MSFT has free download Word for DOS.
Link. Run in XP VM for really old file translation.
Modern versions of Word for Mac can’t open old Word file formats.
Link. Bit shocking really. My Word 95/97 Windows docs can’t be opened.
Those moments when you feel the walls of reality fall away.
Link. Surfing the multiverse.
Exercising with autism: working within the energy budget.
Link. Distraction and excitement key. Fitness develops slowly but steadily.
Disabled adults: the wait lists for services get longer, the parents get older.
Link. Deinstitutionalization pushed costs onto families.
Nashville considers a workaround for comcast’s utility pole blocking of Google Fiber.
Link. Prying one pole at a time from Comcast’s steely claws.
Why Walmart can’t compete with Amazon.
Link. Amazon counterfeit problem result of squeezing the makers?
Amazon’s logistics and delivery strategy: drones for real.
Link. Bezos is a genuine phenomena.
Another essay on the LHC false alarm particle.
Link. Particle physics “odds” reporting is broken. Positive predictive value instead?
Lowe defends Opdivo immunotherapy against a sincere NYT op-ed piece.
Link. A respectful and compassionate correction.
Detailed and readable review of state of AI NLP.
Link. “words can be represented as mathematical vectors” is 1980s Quebec innovation. Lots of caution mixed with some excitement.
I’m switching from Pinner.app to Pushpin.app (Pinboard iOS clients)
Link. Since 9.3.3 Pinner share sheet unstable, app not being updated.
Douthat: “cynical interpretations of the conservative establishment have been vindicated”
Link. Reborn as militant reform conservative.
Blocking Google fiber: Comcast owns utility poles in some cities.
Link. Eminent domain? Wireless can’t do it all.
Airline screwups: they have outsourced core operations.
Link. Save money, sacrifice reliability. Profitable.
Apple screws up new education market iPad management.
Link. Apple ID FUBAR. Bet he is right about database. Too typical.
Ads for new cancer drugs that are not useful.
Link. Despicable.
Dog fertility study finds PCBs and like in dog food.
Link. China.
China-net is not internet.
Link. Companies can’t do both.
NRA responds to Trump’s assassination call.
Link. Doubling down may be unwise.
Pay-for-Performance behind Baltimore police abuse of black men.
Link. Works same way in education and medicine.