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Assume today’s 50-65 has most demanding parent care duties in history. How does that impact employment? Economic growth? # demographics
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I have a suspicion many 45+ impoverished adults, were they children again today, would get special needs diagnosis and disability criteria. Would be an interesting study to estimate this.
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TSA precheck is like pre-2011 travel. Now $85/5y. Once a gross privacy invasion, now NSA-lite. Big plus for airlines, surprised they don’t subsidize.
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In past day of work have had PGIMeet conferencing outage, Google Hangout outage, SharePoint outage, VPN issues, and McAfee antivirus eating my winbox. We live in a lean world of complexity with relatively little resilience. I wonder where it’s going…
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I just moved from ML to Mavericks at 10.9.2. No big problems so far, but quite a few glitches. Had to reinstall printers, iBooks is disappointing, etc. Desktop machines haven’t been mass market since MultiFinder.
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Fujitsu just popped up a marketing survey on my Mac. ScanSnap not running, no startup items for my admin user. They must have installed a daemon or equivalent. Time to update my Amazon review …
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From Aperture create a photo stream. Make it a public website. Now delete an image. Note that it’s not deleted from the public site. This was with Aperture 3.0, wouldn’t surprise me if still broken.
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Cold War II: Houston, we have a problem. What about the Space Station?
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Meteorologically this year’s polar vortex may be the global warmed version of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1820 ‘Long Winter’.
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Stadi Hohenschonhausen Memorial Prison. Berlin. [atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com] Before the American War on Terror, the Stasi. But no simulated drowning? Amateurs.
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Every few months I need prints. Decided least painful option is upload to Walgreens, collect during commute. Beware: not all are 24 hour!
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@clarkgoble #IOT Pelagian Controversy: So that is context of the ‘where do souls fine from’ debate. Important event in Christian theology – informs Catholic position on contraception. Neat!
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I now suspect airfare pricing is like hospital pricing. Corporate/Insured pay far lower than list price. NonCorporate/PrivatePay get stuck with inflated list price. Weird tax games all around. 21st century commerce is all about information asymmetry.
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Early 19th cent, in early industrial revolution, 1/7 of English received some public assistance. Mass disability in time of disruption.
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I’ve wondered where there aren’t more articles on DNA analysis of synovial fluid. Works for oceans! For decades many have suspected an infectious component of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Just created a PubMed RSS feed on the topic [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]. Found 1 article.
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BBC News site Turning Tabloid? Seems whackier to me. More misleading headlines, embroidered stories. I wonder if their journalists are conscious of the change ….
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Is it better to seize the ring or to avoid the traps?
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The world needs a name pronunciation service. Paste string, add optional nationality/ethnicity/language, get pronunciations. Good Google data mining project.
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Thought: If we understood the reboot process the adolescent brain, we’d understand why schizophrenia manifests in late teens.
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Setting up Canada sister with post-contract unlocked ATT i4 and prepaid Virgin.ca SIM. i4 battery old and home button balky, Apple Store swapped for unlocked refurb. $160. Unmatched value preservation.
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I believe less than 10% of my corporate colleagues understand how Outlook/Exchange calendaring works. Same for SharePoint document management. For both it’s 7%. This is where Microsoft failed, not Metro.
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FireWire issues still lockup my Mac, and there are no useful diagnostics. Is Thunderbolt better?
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As earth warms there will be fewer winter olympic nations. Probably never a 3rd women hockey contender. What year will the winter games give up?
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Amazon, I am noticing that my 2 day “prime” deliveries always arrive one day after you say they will arrive.
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Watching Podcast.app inexplicably refuse to synchronize 30 of my podcasts from iTunes. Wishing Apple could be punished for its sins.
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Now that Nook is officially dead, is it time to declare Adobe eBook DRM dead too? Good thing it is technically strippable.
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Starting my scanner project at last. Want to dump ten filing cabinets. (Our paper volume is a peak-paper age artifact, younger/older have less paper.) Will decide if Mac workflow or Acrobat in VM. I like Acrobat OCR.
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Freeze trivial wart: $320. Insurance pays: $48. Health care price concealment is infuriating. Why does Right waste all it’s great rage on stupid things?
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@clarkgoble Hanlon’s razor is great, but I like the “happy accident” of emergent malice. Profitable incompetence becomes unspoken policy. Selection builds on error. // @wickedgood
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Remembering 90s digital pets [en.wikipedia.org]. Prequel to Her. Easy to see AI evolving as Brood Parasite [en.wikipedia.org] on human emotional circuits. Worked for dogs!
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Vanguard edition, evolution of mutual funds. What I see when I order deposit slips: “The page you’re trying to reach is currently unavailable.”
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Fidelity mystery explained: Years ago they transitioned from being mutual fund oriented to being brokerage focused; many mutual fund services went away. I’m sure it wasn’t done to serve me better.
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@wickedgood Curious! The data is largely video, stored in CloudAssets folder [discussions.apple.com]. The only fix I know is to wipe, but I’ll try this workaround. Manual deletion using Phone View didn’t work.
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Another family 4S with uncleared cached iCloud movies using over 15GB storage. Add this one to the (long) 7.x bug list – probably file system corruption bug. Requires backup/wipe/restore cycle to fix.
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#Prediction: Google will roll out two tier service for certified advertisers. Low cost go Promotions tab, high cost go Primary tab. Bypass spam filters, but not user filters.
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I’d pay $20 for a Flash client that let me override the fast forward controls on corporate training videos …
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Metadata management is supposed to be an Aperture strength — but Apple bungled keywords. The keyword inheritance hierarchy capability needed more smarts on keyword data entry.
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On specialist income: Proceduralists control AMA, AMA publishes the accounting codes (CPT) that Medicare uses. Wonderful 40 yo racket in plain view. Amusing nobody notices. #t
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Apple TV couldn’t connect to iTunes Store to rent movie or enter my credentials. Fixed with power cycle. So not perfect …
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Contemplating the iOS Contact Groups mess example, but it’s worse in iOS 7 [hints.macworld.com] I do hope WindowsOS becomes a “pro” phone OS. Be good to have a pro environment on a phone.
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You know all those movies where two enemies are handcuffed together and have to live or die together? Corporate projects are a lot like that.
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Malware we understand. Can we use ‘Corpware’ for corporate mandated surveillance/control s/w that injures winboxes? Complex bugs hard to fix because nothing on Net.
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Was white (country) music always about lost paradise?
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artificial labor [urbanhonking.com] is latest attempt to avoid the dreaded AI word. Cognitive computing is another. In 90s we said expert system. Hilarious. Why not call it “rosette”? #AI
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Realized progressive/trifocal glasses are obsolete. Designed for old style of reading, book in lap. Need new model.
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Siri claims I can ask ‘what is my next turn’ while using maps.app. If true would help with my main complaint, can’t flip ahead when driving – only while walking. (Google maps.app allows several next-turn swipes while driving.) #t
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We need an English word for anti-privacy: ‘controlled knowledge of all consumer action’. I’ll use anti-privacy for now. Ex: a-privacy worth $30/mo to AT&T, Google biz model based on aprivacy, etc.
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We celebrate brilliance and wit, but most employers value steadiness. Since age dims wit more than steadiness there is consolation here.
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Reeder.app image cache was over 2GB on my iPhone. I think it cached a movie I viewed via embedded link. Needs a cap.
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