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Insurance companies deceiving customers, hiding ACA option.

Posted on November 4, 2013 by jgordon

Link. So unlike them. Fox colludes.

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Gassée on a humbler Intel.

Posted on November 4, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Content owner negotiations are brutal.

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Via xkcd i learn adobe’s pw encryption was incompetent.

Posted on November 4, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Cryptographers are costly.

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Why extremely low fed rates may in fact be “natural”.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Savings glut / side-effect of catchup industrialization of most of the planet.

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The extreme sophistication of modern autofocus cameras.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I had no idea.

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Sigiriya Sri Lanka.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I want.

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Comcast $10 mo internet for low income families.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "one child eligible to participate in the National School Lunch Program"

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Goldberg revisits old question of how much future there is.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Nothing new, but nice review for w=-1

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How quickly does superposition expand – quantum gravity tests emerge.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Impossible experiments now inevitable.

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Eugenics continued: abortion for 14% risk schizophrenia.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Trisomy 21 is unusual now …

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Carl Icahn is awful. Dell edition.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. A malevolent force.

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China 2013: patients assaulting physicians.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Huge anger.

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“many pills labeled as healing herbs are little more than powdered rice and weeds.”

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Is anyone surprised?

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Why jobs vis recruiters usually suck.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Too true.

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Lessons in IMAP, and Mavericks innocent of one charge.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Rogue Applescript.

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Power over USB.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Smart power will have powerful malware.

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iGoogle is dead. 24 alternatives.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. More than I would imagine.

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How FDA knows accelerated approval is working: bad outcomes.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Omelet, egg. Absolutely correct.

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House Intelligence Chair: “You Can’t Have Your Privacy Violated if You Don’t Know Your Privacy Is Violated”

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Obama owns this disaster.

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Ergot as a deliberate hallucinogen in medieval europe.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Dangerous high, but life was cheap.

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Salmon: Amazon is good for publishers.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. So far. Wonder what they think.

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American poverty is mainstream

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. About 40-50% experience poverty during life.

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Obama chose wrong people to do healthcare.gov.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They wouldnt admit they were failing. Fault Obama.

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Readdle’s Calendars 5 price goes from $2 to $7.

Posted on November 3, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I’d have aimed for $5, but $7 is a better choice than $2.

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More murmurs of a market bubble.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Money sloshing around.

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Moving to the Snowden statues: “Snowden leaks look more and more justifiable in retrospect”

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Yeah, sure do. What comes first, the pardon or the statue?

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Wanted: A blog feed that consists of a random sample of all past posts.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Feels like it might be coming to WordPress…

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Humanity progresses: Closing the madhouses of the industrializing world.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Sometimes we get better.

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Masonic Lodge concealed in London hotel.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Open for guests.

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Why would Walmart care if things are made in the US?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. #4: They need their customers to have money.

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Innovations in chemotherapy: multi-modal delivery systems.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Decades away, but unusually promising because it’s a technical innovation.

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How long could wealthy countries pay debt if they couldn’t roll it over?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. US 17w, France 9w, Japan 14d – but US and Japan can print money. France though …

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Some people fearing loss of beloved health insurance are unwitting chumps.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They’ve been conned, and haven’t yet figured it out.

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Germany needs to party like it’s 1997.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Go wild.

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Quebec Photo Radar – automated speeding tickets.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I got one on my rental car. Big surprise! I would have been doing typical US speeds on an open highway. A human cop would not have bothered.

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Unlocking a service swapped AT&T iPhone – a surprisingly good experience.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Would be even better if ATT emulated Verizon.

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Two straps on a backpack or one strap?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. My kids are 2 strap. Great story, via dalton.

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Google KitKat needs to know: post-AI.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Dogs and Neandertals teach best response to new apex predator.

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Installation notes from buying a new AT&T contract phone iPhone 5s

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Swapping SIMs, restore bugs, corporate complexity …

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When iPhone AT&T visual voice mail has disappeared and change voicemail password is stuck on “saving password”

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "Change greeting" may be pure voodoo, but if you’re desperate…

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iPad Air LTE can easily switch carriers.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Apple web site warning is obsolete.

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Tor: Ender’s game flops at the end.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Happily Thor sounds great.

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Mavericks issues with Thunderbolt storage, eSATA cards.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Mavericks is nice, but no rush. Just wait a bit.

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U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Smoking and obesity most likely causes.

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Kristof rants on war on terror.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. If Obama really didn’t know then NSA director should be fired.

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Snake neurons? Legacy of primate vs snake.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Today primate is ahead, but don’t count snakes out.

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Google’s quandry: if it can snoop, so can government.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. True security would wreck their business.

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Surgeon skill varies greatly and has big impacts.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Fits with endoscopy studies. To civilians this seems obvious, but within medicine it is a bit surprising.

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Tail wags: left bad, right good.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Whose left? The "not communication" argument begs the question.

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Mavericks Finder Tabs: “Tabs work like a cross between windows and spring-loaded folders, “

Posted on November 1, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Big advantage for moving files.

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