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Apple has put more limits on Family Sharing: “… up to 10 devices per account, only five of which can be computers … Not all products, including In-App Purchases … eligible for Family Sharing. “
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By my estimations if one actively works towards death by 83 long term care insurance is not cost-effective.
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Decided to start using Gmail stars to tag sent emails needing follow up. Somehow have thousands “starred” in ’07prior. No way in web client to unstar all. Maybe Airmail can do via API?
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I think the aWatch is dumb. Which makes me skeptical of the aCar.
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Weird old guy thing. I’ve created a table where columns are health and welfare goals. Rows are people I am responsible for. Cells are things I have to do. The UI scales.
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@clarkgoble Problem is deeper than high school. In 2015 US 50K income requires skills most cannot develop regardless of education. Need to fix employment.
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Disk Utility can’t fix Mavericks encrypted SSD error? Do wipe/restore first, *then* do encryption. Don’t try to encrypt from Recovery Disk Utility then restore.
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Early mobile/PDA images replicated history of awful 1970s color 110 [en.wikipedia.org] and disk [en.wikipedia.org] formats. Big regressions from prior images, very popular, 5-10 yrs to recover lost ground. #b
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13y of In Our Time: historians a bit better with technology, still very poor with disease and demographics. #b
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Tough slog sorting estate photos. My kids will have it easy. Just launch Aperture… Oh. Shit. #b
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@jws Random/punish reward is how abusers and torturers bind victims. iTunes: happy accident or dark design?
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For @clarkgoble ios 9 wish list — need Android’s ability to set cell data use caps.
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American capitalism has now packaged BDSM. Yay us.
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11″ Air 120GB SSD is full of course. Realize a low profile USB flash drive might help. Anyone have 1 they like?
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Shocking realization: I had organize by thread enabled in iOS mail! I hate that.
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Corporate me often hits Sharepoint / Exchange issues. Google often has no hits. Curious silence.
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… Extreme wealth skew may be part of net-Ad business fail. Expect net to resemble daytime TV, predation of weak.
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… Thinking more on dying Google search, net neutrality, App Store floundering, dying journalism jobs. Common thread: failure of ad-based net business model.
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… Salmon’s bleak post on journalism career includes “RSS is dead” meme. I think that is more important (true or false) than he has as yet discussed.
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Before they drive us, the AIs will watch. Close miss on bike, insur up 20%.
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The Canadian mobi market makes Verizon look angelic.
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I can’t tell HD animation from SD. Can anyone?
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iMac internal optical died, so bought external to replace. Surprised how quickly USB opticals are disappearing. Will 2017 be last year they’re sold?
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I’m testing out new IFTT Recipe. Should post to kateva.org/sh and to my Twitter account with link back to app.net.
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MLB 2015 for ios $20 this year. For first time defaults to auto-renew. Greedy. Kudos to ios for post-purchase notice to manage auto-renew.
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Pinboard DDOS: http://bit.ly/1M0xjLl Datacate took IP addresses out for 48h. The net is so broken.
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Anyone using Google Hangouts.app for calling landlines? It worked reasonably well for me 1-2 years ago — but connection half-life was 15 min. Just tried again and it’s unusable. Is it just me?
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My old google voice service (651) is now unusable, too unreliable. Sad to lose, saved me thousands. Will try hangout again.
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@clarkgoble I keep the posts short..
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@clarkgoble I’m planning to implement an IFTTT rule that will turn some of my app.net posts (tagged into tweets with backlinks to app.net…
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What percent of physicians are Scientists? What percent of scientists? I’d guess 15% and 35% …
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My “partially played” itunes script has stopped working. Well, at least the horrid sync bug is fixed.
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It took 60 years after 1780 “start” of industrial revolution for worker living standards to definitively rise. We need to study 18th century Economics to understand 21st.
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… The enormous fraud of US supplement industry is great riposte to fraud in Indian generic drug industry. Without strong regulation fraud is universal. Yay government!
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“Wars of secular religion”. A description of 30th century. What are secular religions today? Is Epistemic closure a market?
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Does Xi think of himself as Qin 2.0? Never underestimate the mad ego of the Emperor.
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At mcd with kids. Why don’t they have an order entry app?
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Eric Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.” Certainly in America. And then the cycle turns again.
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A colleague recommended the book “Born to Run.” I gotta agree. I bet the truth is a lot murkier, but the story of crazed ultra-endurance athletes is weirdly inspiring. I have a bit of that craziness.
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MegaCorp dysfunction: Apple and Microsoft show it can arise in a sea of money. Scaling? Controlled economy (like USSR)? Income inequality? Parasite load? Truly, we need understanding. Who studies this? What discipline? #b
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Slashdot [slashdot.org] still exists. Kind of like MySpace. Interesting bit is I scanned today and headline topics were more interesting than used to be. Maybe smaller cohort has improved quality. I may try tracking feed again.
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@johngordon … Put another way … Humans seem to have a collective action impulse that is dangerous in modern environment and is correlated with religious activity. What is best way to divert and contain that? Religious diversity?
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Listening to In Our Time discuss 1930 nat-soc as religious mania. Plausible human failure mode. Do established religions lessen that risk? Be interesting to read a historical review.
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@rabryst One approach to Socialism 2.0 is to take rexting hourly earning as a baseline (market price), then pay minimum wage by gap-close subsidy.
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@johngordon … Thinking of Wikipedia’s Doom. One fix would be professional/establishment/scholarly Britannica-style articles as prominent companions to problematic entries. #b
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Book needed: “how to die”. My mother did it pretty well, but there are lots of details and we only do it once. Need a practical guide with 10y out, 3y, 6m, weeks, etc. #b
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@johngordon … Related to corporate dysfunction / army of generals: we have immense worldwide talent glut. Which is related to wealth skew, demand deficit. #b
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@johngordon One theory of meeting growth as marker of corporate dysfunction: “Oz’s “army of generals”. Mega-corp have broken the marketplace, so now generals proliferate unchecked. #b
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When life is full recorded we will have undeniable evidence that the simulation periodically loses track of physical objects.
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