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Ebola: I appreciate need to justify intervention by “homeland risk”. However, if were 1 million white folk to save, would be different conversation.
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When something missing for two weeks appears in plain site my confidence in the Simulation is shaken. Are the Producers running out of cash? Maybe we should save less, party more.
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Has Apple done something to break iMessage again?! Old iPhones losing iMessage activation.
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I wonder how FDA will test food and drugs for human microbiome compatibility? Big mission jump. Also, reorg!
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30 years after 8.3 filenames, I frequently exceed Windows 7 path length constraints. Which Win 7 handles very badly.
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Would VERY much like to use no-DRM as a filter when searching for eBooks on Play or iBookstore. Doubt we’ll see that though…
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Instapaper navigation to document top is weirdest UI I know of. Tap letter size, pagination off, back to doc, double tap top…
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WordPress blogs that hide/disable their feeds – why? My guess: blog is primarily about customer targeting, and feeds hide much reader identity. Also, ignorance. Most annoying.
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Pet Peeve #3414: apps that exclude tag text from search. WTF?! Simplenote is an egregious offender.
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Tried Locko – 1Password alternative on Mac app store, free pending iOS version. No CSV import, no CSV export. Data Lock. Deleted.
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… That’s not snark by the way. My #1 son (special needs) is that way. Took me 15 years to understand that big difference in worldview. Narrative is so dominant in my mind. I think he is not alone. Explains a lot about the world. #b
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It is interesting to realize many humans do not need a self-consistent narrative.
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NYT just gave me a mobile ad with a minuscule dismiss target. Had to whack repeatedly to hit as ad scrolled on. Expect more like this.
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Testing PhotoCard.app as way to send family photo and note as snailmail to 92yo father in long term care. Mail is from San Jose to Montreal. $3/card. Wonder if any competition prints in destination country.
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… Actually the import file regression with 1Password 4 is more severe than I realized. 1Password 3 had a UI for mapping columns to headers. 1Password 4 assumes format is correct. Ugly.
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Dream: Despite 40 years of failed efforts, the IndieWeb and Plaintext communities will produce a flexible cross-platform solution for representing knowledge about people, things and notes.
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Sweden’s disability policy [bigstory.ap.org] is good lesson for US: “Sweden, by contrast, workers can take sick leave and then transfer if necessary to temporary disability.” In US disability is a one way exit.
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How stem cell transplant might work. Mix adult cell components with donor mitochondria. Force reversion. Culture stem cells, discarding neoplastic. Infuse. Billionaires at first, then automated.
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… In the midst of article on developmental amnesia: “Prozac, which also encourages neural growth, had the same [amnestic] effect. “. Would be _nice_ to list that in pharmaceutical labeling.
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Raising a special needs child to adulthood gives a different perspective on “odd” or “difficult” adults. It is hard to describe the gulfs between human minds. It is astounding that human societies exist, and unsurprising modern capitalism is in crisis.
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… #Airbnb: It was kind of nice for a privileged white male to experience gender discrimination with room rental. I feel a tiny bit less #genderpigmentguilt. Airbnb discrimination isn’t something to encourage though; I deleted my account.
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Why do cyclists run stop signs? One non-obvious reason. For a bike the best stopping point is about 3-5 feet beyond stop sign. Only there can one see oncoming traffic safely. I never see this mentioned…
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Parents laugh at #3 complaining about memorizing her one phone number. Then realize she has no practice at number memorization or number dialing. Is a foreign concept to her.
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Do giga-corps deliver goods and services to preserve appearances? Could they now exist purely by extraction? Have some finance corporations managed this transition? #b #ecoecon
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Anyone else notice that the iPhone’s total cellular data usage tracking is significantly greater than the sum of the listed contributors? There’s something broken with iOS 7 data use.
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@martinsteiger when I append to my app.net posts IFTTT puts copy on a microblog I own…
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“In an armed society there will be sacrifices, in an unarmed society there will be genocide”. Fb share by confused relative. American Gonnism needs to be understood in religious terms.
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Idea: electronic bike shifters and “IOT” would enable a kill-switch for bike theft. Push smartphone button, bike is permanently in 1st gear. Ok, that’s not much “kill”. But explosive charge disrupting frame seems a bit extreme…
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@clarkgoble I think political scientists and economists should think seriously about the tripartite power model of corporations, billionaires, and voters. Corporations are much more than CEOs. They need to be modeled separately.
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Two things I learned from IOT about our sun. Rotation period is 26 days, and there is a growing suspicion it is atypically stable and well behaved.
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NYT coverage of Hamas execution of “informers” is disturbing. Too often omit words like “accused” and “alleged”. This should get a review.
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Tagging is still broken in nvAlt [brettterpstra.com]. I wish developers would implement pay-for-features more broadly.
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… Credit card business – banks have privatized profits and socialized the risks.
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In 1994 I thought 2004 would bring fiber to every home, 1:1 computers in all classrooms, $10 handheld computers, amazing clinical computing benefits, and 70% universities would close. Didn’t expected wireless movie delivery.
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Recently had to go through Microsoft volume purchasing procedure. They’re finished. Seriously, completely dead. Hopeless. Ex-parrot. They needed to fire their exec layer six years ago.
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I’ve created a Google Alerts RSS feed [www.google.com] to track anything written about what ‘iTunes Accounts’ really means in iOS 8 cellular services. Yes, Google Alerts still work… more or less…
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Kitchen granite counter tops are equivalent of peacock feathers and Irish Elk antlers.
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#1 son (cognitive disability) has many of my traits, but his mind is very different. It is frustrating and fascinating to live with an alien I love. I now understand 100,000 years of anatomically modern humans with largely static technologies. #b
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Another ex of unanticipated corporate consequences: Sarbanes Oxley -> email purge software. Email purge + SP_fail -> all key docs kept on dev desktops and rarely shared -> more business risk.
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A few years ago corporate policy meant elite had smartphone access to email, workers did not. Now workers rarely use email, instead use an archaic IM system that’s desktop only. So elite are tied to desktop again. I love how these things work out.
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I wonder if business units die by accumulating so many “C” and below employees that they can form interlocking cooperative networks that assume control. Maybe broader lessons here.
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Realized one reason tech industry loves continuous deployment and SaaS is we no longer have to worry about QA. (or we act that way…)
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The world needs OS X/iOS mind mapping sofware that natively uses the freemind file format – even if only supports a subset of all of freemind’s stuff.
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Bicycles need no more than 5 sizes of Alan wrench. We need an international blacklist of any bike related thing with any other sized socket.
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My temp mountain bike has disc brakes. Better, but more weight, more complexity and fragility, will lose hydraulic fluid if levers compressed with wheel off. Perfect model for 21st century — progress is more incremental, more tradeoffs.
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Did some testing and just realized that every user on my Mac can mount and read our encrypted backup drive. Hmmm. Not what I’d intended…
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T-mobile prepaid plans (including MVNO like ptel) can’t use Google Voice for Voicemail. Not supported. Dang.
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Occurs to me that to understand consciousness we should not only study coma, but also minds of persons with cognitive disabilities. #b
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New way I think of #1 son ( special needs). Is though he has islands of disconnected cognition going on, his conscious mind can only access some of them. #b
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