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GOP rejector states: nothing for most citizens but subsidies for recent legal immigrants.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Did Scalia et al spend even an hour thinking on their decision?

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“Majority of red-state Americans believe climate change is real”.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Nothing ever changes, until it does.

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John Tavener TE obit: a mystical-hedonist-materialist-genius composer.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Made me look up sempiternal. Great word.

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Why you can’t always make money shorting a pyramid scheme.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Selling the experience of buying. "If you tell investors and the rest of the public that you’re selling boxes of air, you’re fine, you can charge $100 for them"

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Acer dying: another casualty of the mobile revolution.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "unexpected, staggering losses in Q3". I don’t use "revolution" lightly.

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The New Space movement.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. The Valley is where America still dreams.

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Safeplug: $50 Tor on Linux web proxy for anonymized net access across home LAN.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Purchase puts you on a special list.

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Harry Reid to end judicial filbuster.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. GOP broke deal, I think they wanted this.

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White supremacist building North Dakot enclave has ancestry glitch.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Probably Jewish grandmother and gay.

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Physicists on “five things”.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Funny, the physics parts are same for me.

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3,000 yo prosthetic toe.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. As always: why didn’t Egypt have a lunar landing by 700 AD?

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TE has a wonderful snapshot of modern Bangladesh.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I lived there a while. Fascinating.

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Dunbar numbers: 150 friends, 3-5 close friends.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Falls with age though.

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CloudPull 2.5.3 with more nice fixes.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I run it once a month. Makes me happy.

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The Best Carry On Luggage

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. TravelPro Crew 9 22” Rollaboard Suiter – $180 for me.

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The Perpetual Cycle – ear wax and the inheritance of fear.

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Took me a few reads to get it.

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Who pays the CO2 costs of burning coal – inventors or inheritors?

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Arguably the technology carries its own carbon debt. In which case we start from ground zero.

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The Sweet Setup – mandatory addition to every iOS/OS X geek’s feed.

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. RSS, which is dead of course, working well here.

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“Failure is always an option”. Shirky on healthcare.gov

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Unoriginal, but nice rant. I want to read a real investigative report, one that actually improves government.

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Die like a doctor.

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We know when to fold ’em. There are worse things than dead.

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Professional iPhone calculator review.

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Cruel dismissal of my the lovely HP emulatir I like, but best calc review ever. Sweet Setup is great.

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Discover does a review of the Simulation thesis (Bostrom)

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. If the Fermi Paradox applies to your reality then you’re in a simulation. That was easy…

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Antwerp Ruien: A fitting spot for national toilet day.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Heck of a way to build a sewer system.

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Why introverts make great explorers.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet"

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Weird ATT unlock problem.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I had a good unlock experience a few days ago. Wonder if this is new trend.

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“Sexual competition among females seems to increase due to circumstances that tend to be particularly common in affluent societies”

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Yikes. Hope my daughter can dodge some of this.

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Gina Kolata publishes another article on the statin guideline debacle.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. So old risk calculator was lousy and the people who knew that didn’t publish because it was … embarrassing?! The ACA needs to disappear for a while.

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iOS 7: How to search for text on a web page.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Been around forever, I never noticed it.

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“Dow is approaching its actual inflation-adjusted closing record”

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Has the Dow ever broken this record without being in a bubble?

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Rubio’s clever response to church/state separation questions.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Equivalent to: ‘Are you saying God is weak?’

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Imaging the moon with muons.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Ok, so photons give slightly sharper image. Still.

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A US National mapping project for mountain biking.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. There are a lot of bike related mapping projects!

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Cognitive evolution: modern reptiles smarter than thought. New or longstanding?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. How inevitable is the march to intelligence? Fermi paradox implications.

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Paul Davies addresses one of the unknown Drake equation terms – how common are microbes?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We’ve got data on many Drake variables, which puts "pressure" on the unknowns.

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A majority of Toronto’s voters really should be ashamed.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Everyone who didn’t vote, everyone who voted for Ford. Shame on you.

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Power button in Mavericks behaves like old Ctrl-Alt-Power shortcut.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Puts screen to sleep. I’m so used to old method …

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Has Omni solved the App Store upgrade dilemma?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They ensure Apple gets its cut.

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Apple’s Reuse and Recycling program accepts some windows machines, water damaged iphones, etc.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Commendable! No reason to ever toss iPhone in trash.

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Chrome OS Shell (crosh): new age DOS

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Ctrl-Alt-T is very 80s.

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What Alpha knows, Siri knows: Song lyrics.

Posted on November 19, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Deeper point that a lot of Siri capability is tied to what Wolfram does with Alpha.

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Sapphire Screens for Apple in 2014.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Bad news for the screen protector industry.

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How did labels do after iTunes prices went from 99 to 1.29 during the DRM drop

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Revenue up in 2012 on iTunes and subscription services. Did well post-DRM thanks to price bump. Lesson for eBooks.

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A journalist drops in on an art sale: “the event’s unannounced theme was Father-Daughter.”

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Fun time, insanely rich patrons almost human.

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Even without Oswald, JFK was likely to be assassinated

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "a shockingly casual approach to presidential security based on utterly false assumptions" Only a truly incompetent assassin could fail and thus improve security.

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London suffers from the oil disease?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Interesting analogy. Would apply to NYC and SF as well.

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Krugman on the dysfunctional economy.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Why clock-radios suck? Side-effect of mass disability?

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Last good toaster (2006) – researching FM Clock Radio choices reminded me of the ‘missing middle’ problem.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. FM Clock Radio is even worse – a product wasteland.

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New statin guidelines crash: Framingham risk calculator is a dud.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I was right years ago.

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OS X Mavericks: Contacts now understands pasted addresses

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I long ago gave up hope.

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“Angry white men” – profile of one segment of the fallen middle class.

Posted on November 17, 2013 by jgordon

Link. A cohort that’s deeply confused and very angry but still hopeful. They’re wrong about the hope.

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