Link. NIST is to blame. They should have fixed years ago.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
MDCalc – Medical calculators, equations, algorithms, and scores
Link. Ad supported.
Cunningham shoulder relocation
Link. Civilized!
Canon EOS Rebel SL2 vs. Nikon D3400
Link. Both good images, Canon much better at video.
Webmention and micro.blog
Link. Old school good.
Google Brain AI
Link. Essential read.
Kill the password blobs.
Link. Yes.
More Wells Fargo scams.
Link. Fire board.
Inequality skyrockets over past 34 years.
Link. Why America broke.
Federal climate report awaits Trump admin approval.
Link. Doesn’t advise burning coal.
Report cosmetic toxicity to FDA.
Link. http://bit.ly/2hEXm50
Don’t give Trump psychiatric labels.
Link. Great exposition.
Google Scholar suggested queries on advanced topics.
Link. New knowledge probes.
USDA now avoids climate science.
Link. Good thing climate doesn’t impact agriculture.
CIA is run by Trump’s lackey.
Link. GOP.
The Touch Bar is kind of a dud.
Link. Like Force Touch.
Pharma finds new way to gouge patients.
Link. Emergent or planned, proftitable either way.
New age: politicians not punished for lying.
Link. Rupert Murdoch.
Age discrimination is essentially legal in US employment.
Link. Retirement age needs go down, not up.
The GOP will rule Congress for many years.
Link. US gov favors rural areas, they are white and left behind.
After macOS 10.12.6 a lot of apps are doing the “quit unexpectedly”
Link. Anyone else seeing this?
Type 2 Diabetes might have prion component.
Link. Always seemed more than insulin resistance.
Maciej on social graph 2011.
Link. Are we ready to contemplate this again?
Social Graph 2007.
Link. We were innocent. We had hope.
E*Trade advert is a flashing red sell signal.
Link. Is this class of signal ever wrong?
The Mad Bomber: annals of bizarre crimes.
Link. 1950s.
Health plan choices: fewer options better.
Link. Research validates my belief.
1967 vs 83: “median lifetime income of men declined by 10%–19%”
Link. Cherry picking cohorts? Even so.
Tech Bubble with P/E of 18?
Link. Unicorn bubble?
Turtle & Mock Turtle Soup: tastes change.
Link. Which of our foods will go?
Obituary: Liu Xiaobo, China’s freedom fighter.
Link. One day.
Obituary: Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician.
Link. She will be remembered.
The Best Travel Insurance
Link. Save.
Stratchery on Apple’s criminal past and growing lock-in addiction.
Link. Much better than his usual.
“Intelligence, in other words, is political.”
Link. Wealth or talent, Worth is power.
Control by patriotic amplification
Link. Won’t people grow accustomed?
Doonesbury on China income – 1989.
Link. That was a long time ago.
China net block is not absolute.
Link. It’s complicated.
“Trump White House is a judge-a-book-by-its-cover workplace”
Link. Tall stern Kelly makes staff tremble.
VW exec switches plea to guilty.
Link. A deal made. Next, CEO.
MasterCard’s fraud server was down around 6pm CT today.
US Bank, maybe everyone. All transactions declined. Help line overwhelmed.
Worth investigating. DNS? Hack? What happened.
Curious silence on the death of the phone.
In my random sample only mothers answer unrecognized incoming calls. Because it might be about a child.
Everyone else lets them go to voice mail. Because every call is phone spam now.
I have not seen commentary on this — even though it happened fairly quickly.
That is odd.
Scalzi on Wonder Woman and Warner’s wealth.
Link. Outside US DC rules.
Yes, Trump’s brain really does not work.
Link. Makes 2nd term demented Reagan seem brilliant.
ER cast – inadequacy induction.
Link. On extended drive listened to hours of this. Now feeling deeply inadequate.
Voyager’s team endures.
Link. I have Caltech t-shirt from Jupiter flyby.
“throwing used sponges in the dishwasher encouraged the proliferation of its strongest microbes.”
Link. oops
Google Maps walking directions
Only work for me if I toggle to compass mode, lock screen orientation, and orient phone to North.
Took a long time to figure that out.
Your natural running stride may be as good as it gets.
Link. We aren’t created equal.
Gerrymandering Is Crucial to GOP House.
Link. American government designed to favor rural areas.