Link. I won’t buy car without this.
Monthly Archives: March 2017
H-1B visas – before developers there were physicians.
Link. Without this program US would pay rural docs more than urban docs.
Beijing bike share lifts off.
Link. Lightweight infrastructure
iPhone 6s + 17 months = battery pack.
Link. I’ve heard this before. Battery life dropping? Used to last 2.5y
“the President’s pathological lying and our institutions’ inability to grapple with it – is the big, big story
Link. We have a delusional leader.
All our family healthcare visits are now billed as CPT E&M Code “Level Four”
Link. E&M coding was the worse mistake in American healthcare.
pnut.io – an app.net heir
Link. Uses app.net API.
Patreon pledges for pnut.io.
Link. I pledged.
Beware of “thinking like an economist”
Link. Often a facade for ideology.
Siri has no haptic feedback on 6s.
Link. Grrr. Was important for use without looking at screen.
Google forced to provide no-Breitbart ad option.
Link. Sleeping Giants is a good thing.
Trump voters begin to feel the sting of betrayal.
Link. “I was a productive citizen. Don’t make me feel worthless now.” Welcome to the ice floe.
Sierra problems. Reinstall is painless.
Link. I think true for a while.
Your AI assistant will leadvyoubto buy stuff. Like this.
Link. Not debateable.
App.net archive.
Link. Nice!
“add the AppleCare+ extended coverage to iPhones within a year”
Link. I prefer AMEX extended warranty.
NYT and other media failing the “wiretap” test.
Link. Being played.
Stem cell clinics are not FDA regulated. Expect the worst.
Link. God help the foolish.
“Trump budget looks less like a political philosophy and more like a sexual fantasy”
Link. Hard and dominant.
The decline of the WLINC male.
Link. Unsuited to modern work, education won’t help.
“racism and anti-immigrant sentiment that dominated in the opinion polls masked a deeper resentment about the loss of jobs”
Link.
Famine Is Back: Africa and population growth.
Link. Educate women.
Turkey will sustain ISIS in Syria.
Link. Trump likes Erdogan.
“Sebastian Gorka is a sworn member of a Nazi-backed far-right group in Hungary”
Link. Charles Blow was right.
GOP war on medicaid.
Link. Social darwinists.
Right wing operative says no need for independent prosecutor.
Link. NYT published this? Why?
Australia, coal exporter, losing barrier reef.
Link. We will see it only in video.
Cram school America
At a gathering of graduates of “elite” private schools I met a woman who counsels upper class teens on college applications.
She teaches and revised essays. Structures good works to craft an appealing history. Advises classes and direct applications.
All necessary, she says, in the new world.
It sounds like a less democratic version of the Korean cram school.
I think, at root, like Trump, it is about AI, what DeLong calls “Peak human”, and I call “mass disability”. A fear that is not understood but is real. Scrambling for lifeboats on a sinking ship.
Yahoo hack no 327 was partly Russian spy op.
Link. Remember when China hacked Google?
TrumpCare becomes RyanCare.
Link. if Ryan eats it few will be sad.
Marathon under 2 hours: peloton.
Link. Hard to organize….
The dam breaks: subscription services growing faster than ad revenues.
Link. Many reasons, some bad, but overall good news.
iPhone Calibration Machine and the secure enclave.
Link. Only Apple can repair iPhone 8.
eBook sales still falling.
Link. At some point might be worth asking why.
The Greatest Baroque Composer Never Known
Link. Biber.
Billionaire Anschutz created Gorsuch.
Link. Oligarchy.
Resistance: “now is the time to pour on the energy”
Link. Time, money, both
NYT Fact Check slams Trump, Price et al – lying about the ACA.
Link. It’s what they do.
Why trains have angled wheels.
Link. Self-correcting.
“more searches performed on phones in February 2017 than the entire year of 2015.”
Link. Blame the whites. They voted for Trump.
Chat Systems
Link. 18th century railways.
“Republican plan would cost less precisely because it would cover fewer people,”
Link. Arithmetic lives. A LOT fewer.
King is definitively white nationalist.
Link. King Klux Klan.
Trump job stats attack.
Link. GOP war on science repeat. First destroy authority then create new reality.
RyanCare has a suicide pill.
Link. Does not end well.
Stop auto play videos in Chrome.
Link. Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin.
Forget Pruitt, this is about the authority of science.
Link. GOP vs the enlightenment.
10^17: the great wasteland for physics.
Link. Empty lands beyond the standard model.
Nativis: a quack company keeps doing clinical trials.
Link. Health care centers cooperating?!
Toronto home prices go bonkers.
Link. NYC, SF, Toronto.