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Monthly Archives: November 2017
“mirrors are made of twenty to thirty layers of guanine, each containing millions of squares”
Link. Scallop eye is reflector telescope.
Psychiatrists Warn About Trump’s Mental State. Again
Link. GOP beyond hope
Amazon FreeRTOS: IoT on AWS.
Link. Wicked.
RAW photography on iOS: surprising limitations.
Link. Unlike macOS Photos.app doesn’t support RAW!
“Twitter is afraid of pissing off Trump”
Link. Why they let his racism live. Maybe Twitter must die
“be wary of exotic frame materials, and don’t bother with crabon wheels.”
Link. Best bike reviews anywhere.
The iPhone Upgrade Program Reviewed: “Citizens One checks your credit”
Link. Ugh. So glad I use AMEX to buy, get painless extended warranty
CloudApp for iMobile Scam App
Link. Apple’s potemkin app reviews
iBooks in iOS 11 and High Sierra
Link. Yes. F* awful. Because Apple is like Trump now.
Goldman Warns That Market Valuations Are at Their Highest Since 1900 – Bloomberg
Link. But I thought P/E was stable for S&P 500?
T y1: only “ethno-nationalism and racism” remains.
Link. His other causes fall away.
Google Android app to control data use
Link. Better than ios now
How-To Tell If Your iPhone is New or Refurbished.
Link. “If the model number of the iPhone starts with the letter ‘M’, then it is a NEW iPhone”
The Self-Destruction of American Democracy
Link. GOP leadership complicit. White America chose this.
Trump voters: “They had a choice, and they chose the magnification of their darkest demons.”
Link. Do any have regrets? None I know of.
End of the drug industry as we know it.
Link. R&D isn’t working.
You can’t outrun smoking related heart disease.
Link. I remember James Fixx.
NYT science on the social and political framing of sexual harassment.
Link. Reasoned. Franken is not Moore.
Keillor on his termination
Link. Is this all?
Living with nuclear NK.
Link. Containment
Western Ireland storms toss boulders over cliffs
Link. Flood a lighthouse 225 feet high
Apple support.app updated
Link. Didn’t know it! You can choose Apple ID to use
HIV screens need to be much more routine.
Link. Some places still have archaic consent rules.
Hair and nail biotin supplements dangerous.
Link. 600 times RDA is nuts
Criticize Trump, get threatening robocall
Link. Of course
“Republican Party overall is viewed positively by fewer than 3 in 10 Americans”
Link. I’ll believe it when I see election results.
“If Apple can’t fix bugs faster than it creates them, the only possible outcome is operating systems and apps that get buggier and buggier”
Link. A way software dies.
The politics of bringing sanity to Manhattan traffic
Link. A long deliberate campaign.
Requiem for the Internet.
Link. It was a hell of a ride.
Trump skates. Because GOP base doesn’t care.
Link. Female and male alike. The media tried
Ben Thompson Is Wrong About the Deregulation of ISPs.
Link. Thompson has bit of a cult following.
“We stopped killing our babies only when we started having fewer of them”
Link. Infanticide history: universal and eternal.
Aqua runner rehab – revenge on dialysis
Link. Dialysis is lousy.
A clinical researcher’s view of the failed trial.
Link. Most research fails, likely most researchers never see a true win.
Google trying harder to delete free Apps accounts.
Link. Must be millions. Their justification is amusing.
“Mr. Trump has used closed-door conversations to question the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate”
Link. “lifelong habit of attempting to create and sell his own version of reality”
Vast Majority of Google Play Apps Covertly Track Users
Link. Software is not cheap to make.
Exclusive Information From Jaime Phillips About Roy Moore’s Sexual Indiscretions.
Link. Cold Onion, very cold.
“large top predators can respond to invasions at a rate much quicker than most people have ever imagined”
Link. Two generations?! Did they have a backup set of size genes?
“the Duke lacrosse moment, the Rolling Stone moment, will come”
Link. If it has not already come.
Google’s phishing vigilance and the risk of blog comments.
Link. An authenticated bot stuck a phishing attack comment on my tech blog.
“Singular Vector Canonical Correlation Analysis (SVCCA), a technique for taking in two sets of neurons and outputting aligned feature maps learned by both of them.”
Link. Neural nets fragility problems.
“something happened to Flynn, some clear break or event that put him on the course he was on by 2015, only months after he left the DIA”
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“Global Search interest in finance and stocks has more than doubled in the last five years”
Link. Everything smells bubble except p/e. Why are profits so high?
“Pan Pan saved his species by being really, really, ridiculously good at sex.”
Link. Genghis Khan of pandas
Another digital intel leak that shows humans can’t do this.
Link. Do they ever do a root cause analysis?
MindNode 5: detailed review
Link. No collaboration support, share via iCloud at own risk
Unsurprising news from physician payment experiments.
This week we learned:
- If you pay physicians based on how patients do they avoid caring for high risk patients. Who then do worse.
- Conversely physicians who care for wealthy healthy patients get more rewards, so health card dollars are flowing to wealthy patient care.
This surprised nobody with a brain.
Work travel is fundamentally unhealthy
Link. No OSHSA regs