Link. Did Android vote Trump?
Monthly Archives: March 2017
NYT on Trump libel threat.
Link. Bring it on.
“Trump’s vast and overlapping ties to the post-Soviet criminal underworld.”
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MarsEdit 3.7.11: Fix Blogger Photo Uploads.
Link. Until now relied on Picasa.
APFS: “Directory hard links are not supported by Apple File System.”
Link. Hope this is years away for Mac.
Darwin did it all: observations on primate tool use.
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why is the sky blue?
Link. Subtle.
Trump’s only trade option is catastrophic trade war.
Link. Disaster is his catnip.
LastPass exploit: we are screwed. Again.
Link. I hope Schneier will comment.
VW buyback scale.
Link. Jail the CEO.
Trump hiring freeze blocks NASA jobs.
Link. idiocracy.
“11 percent spike in pedestrian fatalities last year”
Link. Autonomous braking needs to be mandatory.
Writers react to loss of blog-friendly ad network.
Link. RSS needs revenue model.
Firms have broken productivity diffusion.
Link. MegaCorp use finance to control markets.
Secular stagnation: an update.
Link. Money money everywhere…
Douthat caught repeating GOP lie that healthcare is pointless.
Link. Arghh.
Cohen-Watnick becomes focus of Flynn-Trump-Putin investigation.
Link. They are insane.
Fake news may break Google’s business model.
Link. Algorithms outsmarted, humans return.
Climate: China steps over fallen US.
Link. Hope they do carbon tariff.
NYT has surprisingly detailed article on legal scams in health care billing.
Link. E&M coding broke American healthcare.
“CBP as something along the lines of a rogue federal agency”
Link. Aggression without competency
Amazon is Breitbart’s strongest ally.
Link. Go after the products Amazon shows rather than Amazon
WLINC suffering: denialism is a leftie thing.
Link. Stramge.
Concrete data supports mass disability from automation.
Link. WLINC have bleak present.
Idiocracy: Trump admin medical technology expertise
The GOP is a cognitive wasteland.
via Politico: “Speaking of new administration staffers: John Fleming, the former member of the House of Representatives and new deputy assistant secretary for medical technology, had some interesting views on drugs and addiction, BuzzFeed reports. In a 2006 book, Fleming speculated that tattoos might lead to drug use, and called opioids potential proof of the existence of a higher power. “Only a higher power and intellect could have created a world in which substances like opiates grow naturally,” he wrote.”
All the ways GOP can destroy the ACA.
Link. They excel at sabotage.
National Geographic Guide to Photography” – free PDF download.
Link. Getting it.
How to save emails from Mail to Notes as PDFs on iOS.
Link. “From the Printer Options screen, pinch the preview of your message” Obscure!
iWork Updates
Link. “intra-document bookmarks and import and export of RTF documents”
Pages 6.1 Adds Basic LaTeX Support.
Link. Nobody expected this.
How to reinstall macOS.
Link. Via Tsai. Must know. New options.
iOS TV App can’t display locally downloaded videos without net access.
Link. Hell of a bug. No news yet if fixed in iOS 3.
Wait “at least a week before installing iOS 10.3”
Link. New file system risks.
The lung is a site of platelet biogenesis and a reservoir for haematopoietic progenitors.
Link. In mice, probably us. Incredible.
Mispronunciation
Link. Words we read but rarely say.
Edit OS X macOS email autocomplete addresses.
Link. window > previous recipients. For once Apple has a good answer.
Apple TV.app will not play downloaded videos in airplane mode.
The most braindead blunder in a long string of Apple screwups. Unforgivable.
Argumentive pessimism v optimism.
Link. Ignores key role of delusion.
538’s bleak analysis of GOP prospects.
Link. Whiplash.
Good news: Trump launches War on Ryan.
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Breitbart ad block: major success but work to do.
Link. Some ads appear despite brand blacklisting Breitbart. Keep pressure!
GOP: extremist vs fanatic, not conservative vs extremist.
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“relationship between Mr. Trump’s team and Moscow evolved to include some of Mr. Trump’s most trusted advisers”
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Things GOP will now do to destroy US healthcare.
Link. GOP may need Pelosi to do their tax games however.
Douthat: NYC as a vampiric monopoly.
Link. Entertaining debate topic.
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Link. Old Christian dilemma of an unhelpful God.
TB Huts in Colorado Springs.
Link. 1/3 of small pop of CO was visiting patients
“When the Luna 3 probe recorded the first pictures of the far side of the moon in 1959, it did so using captured American film.”
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Reading Scalzi: where to start.
Link. One of the leading SF writers of the day.
In RightWorld Trump failure is briliant success.
Link. Master of n^2 dimensional chess.